Employee Rights Employee Safety

One career path of a registered health information administrator (RHIA) is supervision. As a supervisor, it is imperative that you and your staff are aware of key workplace laws and employee responsibilities. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes addressing the following topics:

• Employment laws
  • Age discrimination
  • Employer responsibility and employee rights
  • Employee safety
• Employee responsibilities
  • Incident reporting (including the Joint Commission Sentinel events)
  • Risk management (including risk identification, risk analysis, and risk evaluation)
  • Government focus on patient safety
• Create and review a procedure for employees to follow for one of the following topics:
  • Employee posting on social media (Fundamentals of Law for Health Informatics and Information Management, Chapter 13)
  • What information can be released when a celebrity or “person in the news” in under the care of the hospital (Fundamentals of Law for Health Informatics and Information Management, Chapter 15)
  • Release of information to a parent who does not have custody of a minor
  • The Uniform Health-care Decisions Act for consent to treatment and donation of decedent’s body (Fundamentals of Law for Health Informatics and Information Management, Chapter 8)

For each topic within your PowerPoint presentation,

• Define the topic.
• Explain why it is important in the health information management workplace.
• Summarize the statute, regulation, and/or administrative rule.
• Explain the key points a new supervisor and/or an employee needs to know.
• Examine two examples of violations.
• Describe the penalties for violations of the workplace law.

Your PowerPoint presentation

• Must be a minimum of eight double spaced slides in length (not including title and references slides) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation (Links to an external site.) resource.
• Must include detailed speaker notes written in full sentences. Review the Add Notes to Your Slide section of the Writing Center’s How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation (Links to an external site.) resource.
• Must include slides with at least two colors.
• Must include a minimum of two pictures or clip art.
• Must include a separate title slide with the following:
  • Title of presentation
  • Similarity score from Turnitin
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least five scholarly, peer-reviewed, or credible sources in addition to the course text and course materials.
  • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.