...Running head: DIFFUSING ANGRY PATIENTS AND VIOLENCE 2 Assessing and Diffusing the Angry Patient to Prevent Workplace Violence The decline of manners is well noted in society with bullying rampant in the schools and a new breed of language such as “road rage”, going “postal” and “whacked” becoming accepted mainstream lingo. In service transactions, which do include nursing, rudeness is widespread where the customer (i.e., the patient) has the mentality that s/he is always right. Moreover, the healthcare setting, a place where one usually goes for necessities, not optional visits, is often scenes of chaos fraught with intense anxiety and nerves. Those moods and environment coupled together is a powder keg for violence; unfortunately, workplace violence for healthcare workers. Workplace violence (WPV) can take many forms, including verbal and emotional abuse; physical assault; threats of physical violence; bullying, unwanted sexual advances; and various forms of harassment (Chapman, Perry, Styles & Combs, 2009). According to the CDC, healthcare workers are four times more likely to be assaulted in the workplace than people who work in the private sector (Moz, 2009). Nurses are vulnerable to WPV given their occupation requirements and need to interact with patients. Of the various specialties of nursing, nurses who work in the emergency departments (ED), psychiatric units, and nursing homes, often encountered the greatest risk...
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...Running head: A Brief Look into Jainism and Judaism A Brief Look into Jainism and Judaism Tammy Chace Strayer University REL212 Dr. Travien L. Capers July 31, 2013 A Brief Look into Jainism and Judaism While studying different religions I became fascinated with Jainism and I have always been interested in Judaism. In this paper we will take a look at the basic origin of each religion and several of their foundational spiritual beliefs. We will then look at a few spiritual practices of each religion. We will look at an example of how each religion is practiced today. Jainism Jainism dates backs to the 6th century B.C.E. in India. The religion derives its name from the jinas, meaning conquerors, a title given to twenty-four great teachers , through whom their faith was revealed. Mahavira, the last of the tirthankaras, is considered the founder of Jainism. The ultimate goal of Jainism is the liberation of one’s self from rebirth, which is attained through the elimination of accumulated karma. This occurs through both the disciplined cultivation of knowledge and control of bodily passions. When the passions have been utterly conquered and all karma has been removed, one becomes a Jina, or “conqueror", and is no longer subject to rebirth. Jainism conceives of a multi-layered universe containing both heavens and hells. Movement through these levels of the universe requires adherence to the Jainism doctrines emphasizing a peaceful and disciplined life. These principles...
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...effect of aggressive behavior among the youth has been an ongoing focus. Violence among teens and children has increased dramatically over the years. Moreover, children are starting to engage in sexual intercourse at a very early age. Television programs are effecting the attitude, emotions, behavior of youth; we wake up to it, dance to it, and sometimes cry to it. "Effects of the media have found to be far reaching and potentially harmful in influencing the health-related behavior of children and adolescents" (Dudley pg.7). The effects of the media has been far more harmful on the youth than we can ever imagine. Media can be defined as internet sites, blogs, YouTube, social networking, and t.v shows. Media violence researchers have concluded that there are several ways media violence influences a young persons' behavior. Passive media violence affects a young person through exposure to television violence in programs, movies or news that is only observed by the child or teen. Young children are also influenced negatively by interactive media violence, where they participate, like in video games or activities on the internet. "Even short term-exposure to violent television programs and film media, both can cause aggressive emotions and behavior serious enough to harm others," according to Department of Psychological Science. There are certain factors that will influence the degree that media violence has on the youth. The presence of these factors will moderate the negative...
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...Contents Introduction………………………………………………..……………………………………..iii Facility Overview……....…………….……………………………………………...……….......iv Current Crime Prevention and Security Measures in Place............................................................iv Physical Limitations.…………………………..…………….…………………………………….v Optional Physical Security………..………………........................................................................vi Information and Records Security………..………........................................................................vi Emergency and Response Planning...............................................................................................vii OSHA Standards and Violaton….…………………………………………….……………..….xiii Hiring Practices……………...….…………………………………………….……………..….xiii Legal Issues…..……………...….…………………………………………….……………..……ix Conclusion……………...….…………………………………………….……………..………...ix References…………………………………………………………………….……………..…….x Introduction The purpose of this paper is to design a security plan for the Maryland Public Safety Education and Training Center (MPSETC) that, at a minimum, identifies the facility assets requiring protection, the criticality of those assets, the various threats directed at the assets and the probability of loss. Through my research, I will identify various problems and offer possible solutions to those listed issues. ...
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...The European invasion of Australia in 1770 was the beginning of a series of events and imposed policies that would change the way of life for Aboriginal people forever. When settlers first arrived on the shores of what is now called Botany Bay, they failed to see a people of rich culture, with an intricate kinship system and highly developed system of customary law. Instead they set out to degrade Aboriginal cultures and deny the existence of custodial ownership of the land (Newbury, 1999, p. 25). Over the next two hundred years, the government would introduce a number of policies that would continue this destructive ideal and aim to control Indigenous people, including their culture, beliefs and movements across the country. Although these policies had a major effect on Indigenous people there are many stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people resisting the European invasion. Captain James Cook landed on the east coast of Australia, specifically in Botany Bay, home of the Eora people and claimed possession under the doctrine of ‘terra nullius’. British law at the time stated that Britain could only take possession of another country if it was not inhabited or through negotiation or war. The British ignored these laws, invading and settling on Aboriginal land (NSW Education and Communities, 2013, para. 1). British settlers went about removing trees, reducing availability of food and other resources, brought in livestock which contaminated the waterways and...
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...incidents and promptly implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrences • Measuring, reporting and monitoring meaningful OHS performance indicators that are aligned to the organizations strategy and objectives And also they should be well known about these things which are listed below 1. Legislative frame work- workers in Australia are protected by state health and safety legislation. Regardless of wither someone is working full time or part time, has a permanent or casual they are covered. 2. Acts- acts are laws passed by parliament which can be enforced both commonwealth and state legislation will apply OHS practices in Australia. 3. Regulations- regulation is legal document made under acts. Regulations are defined in more specific details on how the legislation is to be implemented. 4. Codes of practices- in additional to...
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...provided for them in their families. Children who are rejected by their parents, who grow up in homes with considerable conflict, or who are inadequately supervised are at the greatest risk of becoming delinquent. Literature reviews, focused on the relationship between child abuse and juvenile delinquency, indicate that juvenile delinquents are often products of families that consciously or unconsciously neglect their childhood needs. Corporal punishment by parents often leads to overt and aggressive misbehavior. Neglect and extreme punishment can cause children to become rebellious adolescents who use misbehavior to "pay back" the family. Childhood abuse and neglect has been linked to a number of other adolescent problems. Compared with non maltreated matched control groups, abused or neglected children are significantly more likely to engage in violent behavior, become pregnant during adolescence, use drugs, have lower GPAs, and/or experience mental health problems. The growing body of research on these issues uses a variety of methodologies but leads to a similar conclusion: in general, people who experience any type of abuse or neglect during childhood are more likely than people who were not abused to be arrested later in life. Being abused doesn't mean a child, or adult, will automatically have an unhappy life. It's not the abuse that can ruin...
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...simple hurt. Devout Hindus oppose killing for several reasons. Belief in karma and reincarnation are strong forces at work in the Hindu mind. They full well know that any thought, feeling or action sent out from themself to another will return to them through yet another in equal or amplified intensity. What we have done to others will be done to us, if not in this life then in another. The Hindu is thoroughly convinced that violence which he commits will return to him by a cosmic process that is unerring. Two thousand years ago South India’s weaver saint Tiruvalluvar said it so simply, “All suffering recoils on the wrongdoer himself. Thus, those desiring not to suffer refrain from causing others pain” (Tirukural 320). A similar view can be found in the Jain Acharanga Sutra: “To do harm to others is to do harm to oneself. You are he whom you intend to kill. You are he whom you intend to dominate. We corrupt ourselves as soon as we intend to corrupt others. We kill ourselves as soon as we intend to kill others.” Many today are wondering how we might move from violence to nonviolence, how mankind might transform itself from approval of killing to opposition to it. The Hindu knows...
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...prohibition: murder, corruption, assault, racial and economic marginalization, just a few examples of the effects fueled by the cold and inhuman policies of prohibition. The idea of prohibition is an old one and it is not practical to apply in our democratic government that is based on individual rights. The prohibition of alcohol during the roaring 20’s is the perfect example that proves prohibition is a failed policy that cost many people their lives. The legalization of all illegal drugs, will minimize if not eliminate violence related to drugs, will ensure safe regulation through the standards of pharmaceutical companies, and will save money in so many ways. Violence related to both the sale and use of drugs will minimize if not diminish if they are legalized. How are drugs and violence related? Drugs and violence are related because drugs are in high demand and are expensive due to their illegality. Combine the high demand and price tag to drugs and expect violence to ensue. At one point in time the U.S. government actually practiced the same policy it is doing today and that policy was the prohibition of alcohol. When a government prohibits something, not only is it being intrusive to the lives of its...
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...have progressed greatly over the years as well as the influence of the prison system on America. The development of privately operated prisons has added a political aspect to the imminent solutions of the problems within the prison system. The birth of the prison system stemmed from the need to find more humane and effective means of punishment for wrongdoers, or those who chose not to follow society’s guidelines. Before prisons existed, the majority of serious crimes were dealt with by capital punishment. The British criminal code, which was emulated until the Revolution, depended greatly on capital punishment. Although less severe crimes, which did not sanction the death penalty, were punished with fines or “sanguinary” punishments. Non-capital punishments in the early days of criminal justice were designed to terrorize and subject offenders to derision in hope that they would change their behavior. Jails existed but they were mainly used to hold criminals during pretrial proceedings. The realization that cruel vengeance did little to limit or prevent criminal activity in the 1700s further promoted the invention of the prison. The first penitentiary, Walnut Street prison, was converted from a jail in 1790. It was designed with 16 solitary cells for the serious offenders and large rooms where less hardened criminals would sleep together. This became the prototype for prisons over the next 30 years. Walnut Street Prison operated on the concept that silence among the inmates...
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...doing this project and learning something new, for their guidance and constant supervision as well as for providing necessary information regarding the project and also for their support in completing the Project. We would like to express our gratitude towards our parents for their kind co-operation and encouragement which helped us in completing this project. Our thanks and appreciation also goes to my friends in developing the project and people who have willingly helped us out with their abilities. TABLE OF CONTENT SERIAL NO. | PARTICULARS | PAGE NO. | 1. | INTRODUCTION | 3 | 2. | HONOUR KILLING IN INDIA | 5 | 3. | IN LEGAL CODE AND AS CULTURAL PRACTISE | 6 | 4. | CAUSES | 9 | 5. | EFFECTS | 11 | 6. | HONOUR RELATED VIOLENCE | 13 | 7. | CASE STUDY | 14 | 8. | WARNING SIGNS | 17 | 9. | SUPPORT AND PROTECTION | 18 | 10. | INHIBITING FACTORS | 20 | 11. | GUIDELINES FOR SUPPORT | 21 | 12. | PUBLIC FUNDS | 22 | 13. | RECOMMENDATIONS | 23 | 14. | CONCLUSION | 24 | 15. | BIBLOGRAPHY | 26 | INTRODUCTION An honor killing or honour killing is the killing of a member of a family or social group by other members, due to the belief of the perpetrators that the victim has brought dishonor upon the family or community. Honor killings are directed mostly against women and girls, but have been extended to men. The perceived dishonor is normally the result of one of the following behaviors, or the suspicion of such behaviors: dressing in a manner unacceptable...
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...Royal Family of the Xhosa tribe. His royal stature was not what one would expect. His childhood home did not have electricity or even running water. He worked as a herd-boy herding cattle while growing up. His non-luxurious upbringing allowed him to learn some very valuable life lessons. During this time, one of the more important lessons and future teachings Nelson Mandela learned was that he believed to best help and guide followers is to give them direction not to control them. Mandela would stand at the back of the herd to get the cattle to move. He was guiding the herd by giving them direction and allowing the herd to move for themselves(Gray 51). Not all of Mandela’s leadership skills were self taught. He also learned many lessons from being led. Chief Jongintaba, who led the Thembu tribe, was Mandela’s guardian. Mandela observed that when the Chief would conduct meetings, he would not allow the meeting to end until everyone expressed their opinion and spoke their mind. Mandela learned another key lesson from these meetings, which was to “listen in thoughtful silence” before speaking aloud(Gray 53). This means that the best time to speak is at selected times, intermittently. At these selected times, he would then only speak enough to keep the consensus. Mandela’s amazing ability for silence came with a lot of practice and self discipline. Due to his violent acts against the government in 1960, Mandela received a 27 year sentence in a South African prison...
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...Critical Issues in Policing College of Criminal Justice and Security CJA/214 Version 3Introduction to Police Theory and Abstract There are several critical issues in policing. The main critical issues of policing are: use of deadly force, police deviance, police prejudice and discrimination, violence, substance abuse, and police brutality as well as other police misconduct. Not only do law enforcement agencies have to deal with critical issues within their agencies, they also have to deal with critical issues that pertain to the public. Keywords: deadly force, police deviance, police prejudice and discrimination, violence, substance abuse, and police brutality Critical Issues in Policing Officers put their lives at risk every day. When they put on their uniforms and go out into the field they are faced with danger and they have to be prepared to handle the situations they come face to face with. “When you are in a position to protect the people and the community your job generally will come with a large amount of risks” (www.termpaperhouse.com). Dangers There are many dangers associated with policing. The policing agencies deal with several different people on a daily basis, some of which cause a lot of problems for them. The main dangers that police officers face is getting shot. Police officers are exposed to the danger of getting shot while they are patrolling, making traffic stops, making arrests, during vehicle pursuits, and while responding to calls. Another danger...
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...Domestic Violence Specialty Court Analysis and Effectiveness What is the leading cause of injury to women? It is domestic violence not rape, not car accidents, not muggings. Domestic Violence statistics are so bad that they do not even look real. A women is assaulted every 9 seconds, three women are murdered due to domestic violence and between 3- 10 million children witness domestic violence every year. Domestic violence is so apart of culture that 1 in 5 teenage girls are threatened by their boyfriend when she suggests breaking up with him. The worst part of domestic violence is that over half of all victims never contact the authorities or shelters for help. (“Domestic Violence Statistics”) Since money has and will always be a major part of domestic violence s courts, domestic violence costs more then 37 billion dollars a year when you add up law enforcement costs, medical and mental health treatment and lost productivity at companies. (“Domestic Violence the Stats”) Domestic violence specialty courts aim to solve the growing issue in this country. These courts want to lower recidivism rates, and make more women and children safe. The courts have supporters and people who are against them, but these courts are so new no one really has the authority to judge one side or the other. I have decided to look into how affective these courts are and if they are helping keep more people safe and helping offenders become valuable and good members of society. Before I go into...
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...Thesis Statement…………………………………………………………………………8 7. Executive statement………………………………………………………………………9 8. Abbreviations………………………………………………………………………...….11 9. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………..12 10. Statement of Problems………………………………………………………………….13 11. Methodology……………………………………………………………………………14 12. Scope of Study………………………………………………………………………….14 13. Review of Literature…………………………………………………………………….15 SECTION 1: GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT 1.1. Introduction …………………………………………………………………….17 1.2. Definition of Gender Equality and Women Empowerment…………………….17 1.3. Current state of Gender Equality and Women Empowerment in Pakistan……..18 1.4. Biswas’s Indicator of Women Empowerment ………………………………….19 1.5. Violence against Women………………………………………………………..19 1.6. Women Empowerment in Legislation and Judiciary…………………………...20 1.7. The Role of Rural Support Programme Network……………………………….21 1.8. Universal Standard Of Gender Equality And Women Empowerment………….24 1.9. Constitutional safeguard to women is provided in the Constitution of Pakistan..25 SECTION 2: LEGAL FRAMEWORK 2.1. Criminal Law Amendment Act-I of 2005 ……………………………………...26 2.2. Criminal Law Amendment (Protection of Women) Act 2006 …………………27 2.3. Criminal...
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