Courses Specifically for Ethics & Compliance Training

Creating a Bully-Free Workplace: Employee Edition

Workplace bullying can have devastating effects on victims, witnesses, and organizations. In this course, managers and supervisors will learn how to recognize and address workplace bullying and common prevention strategies to keep their work area bully-free. They will learn how to analyze their behavior to ensure it is always appropriate and the importance of promoting a culture of mutual respect in the workplace.

Bribery: Recognizing and Avoiding Improper Business Incentives (Core Employee)

Bribery takes many forms, not just a payment, to expedite business. A bribe is never called a bribe. Instead, it’s labeled many other things, making bribery in the workplace a challenging issue. To complicate matters, in a global marketplace, bribery has different implications. Here, learners explore how to prevent or respond to a bribery attempt in ways that protect themselves and their organization.

A Civil and Respectful Workplace (Foundation Employee)

Some workplaces suffer the effects of conduct just short of harassment, bullying, and discrimination—aggressive, rude, insensitive conduct, unrestrained conflict, unmanaged bias, and group friction. These behaviors lower morale and productivity and harm an organization’s reputation. Other workplaces sustain a positive, affirmative culture, where individuals interact civilly and respectfully, make decisions largely avoiding bias, and are inclusive of others. Here, employees thrive, feel inspired, and increase productivity – for their and the organization’s success. ~~This course overviews a civil and respectful workplace, the benefits that can accrue from it or the consequences when failing to maintain it, and the conditions and behaviors that compromise or support such a workplace.

NEW – The Ethics in Patient Referrals Act (“Stark Law”)

This training introduces the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act, also known as The Physician Self-Referral Law or the Stark Law, first passed in 1989 and amended since, restricts self-dealing by physicians and family members who make medical referrals to entities in which the physician has a financial interest. One intent is to reduce Medicare fraud. Through referrals, a physician could order unnecessary procedures, set rates higher than the market, or take other steps that would unjustly benefit the physician at the expense of taxpayers and patient healthcare.

HIPAA Essentials

This training provides a detailed understanding of protected health information (PHI), its identifiers, and the importance of protecting and de-identifying it. It details the Privacy Rule, which addresses patients’ rights regarding PHI, the proper forms of disclosure, purposes for when PHI can be used and disclosed, and to which parties—and when it cannot. This training describes the Security Rule, including risks to handling electronic PHI (ePHI); administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to protect it; and use of mobile devices and social media related to PHI. The Breach Notification Rule is discussed, including when a breach of PHI occurs, assessing the extent of a breach, and steps a covered entity must take regarding a breach, including notifying affected people.