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Title 42 of the United States Code is the United States Code dealing with public health, social welfare, and civil rights. Parts of Title 42 which formerly related to the US space program have been transferred to Title 51. [1]
As codified in 42 U.S.C. chapter 6A of the United States Code from the US House of Representatives; As amended in the GPO Statute Compilations collection. Title I Short Title and Definitions (PDF/details) Title II Administration and Miscellaneous Provisions (PDF/details) Title III General Powers and Duties of Public Health Service (PDF/details)
Long title: A bill to amend title IX of the Public Health Service Act to provide for the improvement of patient safety and to reduce the incidence of events that adversely effect patient safety. Acronyms (colloquial) PSQIA: Enacted by: the 109th United States Congress: Effective: July 29, 2005: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 109–41 (text ...
The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) was passed by the United States Congress in 1990 as an amendment to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990.Effective on December 1, 1991, this legislation required many hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospice providers, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and other health care institutions to provide information about ...
Virginia Avenel Henderson (November 30, 1897 – March 19, 1996) was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and writer. [1]Henderson is famous for a definition of nursing: "The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the ...
Levine postulated four main principles that the nurse follow to facilitate healing a patient. They are conserving the patient's: Energy; Structural integrity; Personal integrity; Social integrity; The conservation model of nursing is based around the law of conservation of energy, combined with the psycho-social aspects of the individual's ...
Clinical peer review, also known as medical peer review is the process by which health care professionals, including those in nursing and pharmacy, evaluate each other's clinical performance. [1] [2] A discipline-specific process may be referenced accordingly (e.g., physician peer review, nursing peer review).
Long title: An Act to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women; by authorizing enforcement of the standards developed under the Act; by assisting and encouraging the States in their efforts to assure safe and healthful working conditions; by providing for research, information, education, and training in the field of occupational safety and health; and for other ...