Question

List six employment laws and select one to describe in-depth. US HEALTH SYSTEM

Answer 1

INTRODUCTION

United health care system is an organization of people,instituitions and resources and that deliver comprehensive health care need to the high risk or targeted peoples like old age,childrens,pregnant women,lactataing mother,chronically ill patients etc

-The complexicity of health syastem in United states consist of '

-GOVERNMENT

-MARKET FORCE

-CHARITABLE TRUST

EMPLOYMENT LAWS

-Means some principles or guidlines we have to follow while working under in an organizations,health care settings etc

-Employment laws consist of federal,state or local laws ,satutes,ordinance,or common laws which improve work place enviornment

-Employment consists of laws related to employee /employer elationship

-The main elements of employment laws are follows'

-COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

-EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION

-UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION

-PENSIONS

-WORK PLACE SAFETY

-WORKES COMPENSATION

OBJECTIVES OF EMPLOYMENT LAWS

-to protect and promote employees health

-to promote and control the infectious diseases

-to prevent discrimination

-to get proper wages and benefits

-to get privacy ,comfort and safe working enviornment

THE SIX EMPLOYEES LAWS IN THE UNITED STATES

-The main components of health systems in United States as follows;

-HEALTH CARE PROVIDER

-HOSPITALS like federal hospitals,non-federal hospitals,community hospitals

-AMBULATORY CARE PROVIDER

-MENTAL AND SUSTANCE ABUSE CARE

-PHARMACY SERVICE PROVIDERS

THE SIX LAWS

1-The Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act

2-Illinois Adopts the Health Care Violance Prevention Act

3-Home Health Care Aide Compensation

4-MeToo-Inspired Anti-Harrassment Laws

5-A New Law Restricting Physician Noncompetition Agreements as to Patients With Rare Disorders

  6-Joint Employer Under Federal Labour Laws

THE WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION FOR HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL SERVICES WORKERS ACT

-This act is defines the stanard work place under General Duty Clause

-The main components of this act is;

-LEADERSHIP

-RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF AN INDIVIDUAL

-PROVIDE SHIFTS

-SAFETY

-SAFE ENVIORNMENT

AIMS ARE FOLLOWS'

-to protect health care workers ,social care workers and other personnal from work place violence

-the applicability of other statuatory requirements

-the main scope is to provide COVERED FACILITY -it means any hospital should provide a special   care like;

-residential and-non-residential treatments

-medical treatments

-community based treatments

-any psychiatric treatment facility

-drug abuse or subsatance abuse treatment facilities

-to conduct violence prevention programmes like;

-MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT AND EMPLOYEES PARTICIPATION

-HAZARDS PREVENTION AND CONTROL

-SAFETY AND HEALTH TRAINING

-RECORD KEEPING AND PROGRAMME EVALUATION

WORK PLACE PROGRAMME CHECK LISTS

-It is defined as, is to evaluate the working place status by using the checklists

-Check list includes the following steps;

-RISK FACTORS FOR WORKPLACE VIOLENCE

-INSPECTING WORK AREAS

-INSPECTING EXTERIOR BUILDING AREAS

-INSPECTING PARKING AREAS

-SECURITY MEASURES

-In the United States ,the employers have some uniques rights as follows;

-contract and right at work

   -scope of protection

-    -contract of employment

-wages and pay

  -working time and family care -

  -pensions

  -health care safety

-civil liberties

-workplace participation

-labour unions

-right to organize

-right to vote at work

-the prevention of work place violence such as;

-ACT OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE

-THREAT OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE

-HARASSMENT

-INTIMIDATION

-identifying and responding to the satges of violent behaviour,stages are;

STAGE-1---ANXIETY

STAGE-2---ARGUMENTIVE DEFENSIVE

STAGE-3---VERBALLY ,PHYSICALLY THREATENING

STAGE-4---ASSAULTIVE

-Identify how to stop workplace violence,through AWARNESS,EDUCATION AND PREVENTION

SUMMARY

Laws are rules and laws are made FEDERALLY,ON A STATE LEVEL,LOCALLY,COMMOM LAW.Laws may be criminal or civil but work place policies are not laws