Legislation Affecting Occupational Health Nursing

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2005). National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. Retrieved December 13, 2005, from http://www.cdc.gov/nip/vacsafe/default.htm#NCVIA.

Connecticut Department of Public Health. (2005). Nursing regulations. Retrieved August 16, 2005, from www.dph.state.ct.us/Public_Health_Hearing_Office/hearing_office/Nursing_Board/BOEN.HTM.

Connecticut Department of Public Health, & Office of Government Relations. (2005). Public health code. Retrieved July 20, 2005, from www.dph.state.ct.us/phc/phc.doc.

Connecticut General Assembly. (2005). General statutes of Connecticut, Chapter 378: Nursing (Secs. 20–87 to 20–102z). Retrieved August 16, 2005, from www.cga.ct.gov/2005/pub/Chap378.htm.

Johnson C.W. (2003). How our laws are made. Retrieved July 5, 2005, from http://thomas.loc.gov/home/lawsmade.toc.html.

Knoblauch D. Childre F. Strasser P. (2001). Legal and ethical issues. In Salazar M.K. (Ed.), AAOHN core curriculum for occupational & environmental health nursing (2nd ed., pp. 71–93). Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

National Council of State Boards of Nursing. (2005a). Nurse licensure compact. Retrieved November 12, 2005, from www.ncsbn.org/nlc/rnlpvncompact_mutual_recognition_state.asp.

National Council of State Boards of Nursing. (2005b). Nursing regulation. Retrieved July 5, 2005, from www.ncsbn.org/regulation/index.asp.

Nebraska Health and Human Services System. (2005). Department of regulation & licensure. Retrieved July 5, 2005, from www.hhs.state.ne.us/reg/regindex.htm.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (2005a). Compliance assistance quick start. Retrieved July 29, 2005, from www.osha.gov/dcsp/compliance_assistance/quickstarts/index.html.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (2005b). What is a state OSHA program? Retrieved July 29, 2005, from www.osha.gov/fso/osp/faq.html#oshaprogram.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (1990). Medicare, Medicaid and CLIA programs: Regulations implementing the clinical laboratory improvement amendments of 1988 (CLIA-88)—proposed rule. Federal Register, 55(20), 896–20, 959.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2005). Office for Civil Rights—HIPAA. Retrieved December 13, 2005, from http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/.

U.S. Department of Labor. (2005). The Occupational Safety and Health Act. Retrieved December 13, 2005, from http://www.dol.gov/compliance/laws/comp-osha.htm.