...OPENING STATEMENT Death sentences are imposed in a criminal justice system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent."Death is... an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality, and in its enormity... The fatal constitutional infirmity in the punishment of death is that it treats 'members of the human race as non humans, as objects to be toyed with and discarded. There is no evidence that the death penalty is more effective than long term punishment. States that have the death penalty do not have lower crime rates than states without the death penalty. "Retribution is just another word for revenge, and the desire for revenge is one of the lowest human emotions. To kill the person who has killed someone close to you, is simply to continue the violence which destroys the avenger as well as the offender. Expressing one’s violence simply reinforces the desire to express it. The U.S. Department of Justice’s own figures reveal that between 2001 and 2006, 48 percent of defendants in death penalty cases were African Americans. African Americans make up 13% of the us population, and yet 50% of death row inmates are African American. The biggest argument against the death penalty is that is incredibly biased. A study by Yale showed that African Americans are 3 times more likely to receive the death penalty that white defendants. Since the reinstatement of the modern death penalty, 87 people have been freed from death...
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...Reporting Practices and Ethics Gordon Wilson 3/3/2014 HCS 405 Financial management consists of ethical standards and reporting practices. Monetary managing is the supervision of a business or organization’s finances in order to reach financial goals. The main intention of financial management is to generate capital for the organization, produce a progressive cash flow, and deliver a suitable recurrence in funds. Moreover, there are four elements of financial management that are very important to any health care organization as well as the generally accepted accounting principles related to health care. The four elements of financial management are planning, controlling, decision making, organizing and directing. A financial manager needs to understand and implement each of the four elements to ensure the success of a business. While planning the financial manager need to recognize goals and classify the steps that are necessary for achieving these goals. A financial manager recognizes the procedures that must be completed to achieve the organization’s goals. The organizing and directing element of financial management makes sure the most recent resources are used and provides daily supervision. The financial manager determines how the resources of the organization will be used in order to successfully complete plans that have been established. The controlling element of financial management is to ensure procedures are being followed. Financial managers ensure all ranges...
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...Financial Planning or Financial Plan is defined as, “a comprehensive evaluation of an investor’s current and future financial state by using currently known variables to predict future cash flows, asset values and withdraw plans” (Investopedia, 2015). Many companies and organizations cannot run without having the proper financial planning, by keeping records up to date, following the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and general financial ethical standards as well as the four main elements of financial management. Finally, by addressing financial reporting practices and ethical standards within healthcare finance, fraud and abuse can not only be monitored but the integrity and responsibility of that medical clinic or hospital can continue their reputation at a high stance. Fundamentals of Financial Management There are four main elements of financial management; planning, controlling, organizing and decision making. In the planning element, financial managers have to classify the many steps that need to be taken in order to accomplish and complete an organizations objectives. The main purpose of planning comes down to identifying the steps in accomplishing these objectives. When financial managers oversee each area of an organization, making sure they follow the steps that have been established in plans is the controlling element. Organizing includes the financial managers decisions on how to appropriately use the resources of a company to make sure plans...
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...oral diet within a few hours of a procedure and typically include advancement of a diet to solid foods as tolerated within 2 to 3 days. 1 2,4-7,12,13 Thus, from a nutrition perspective the body of evidence supports use of ERPs that incorporate nutrition to enhance post-operative recovery and maintains a need for future research into improving nutrition components of those processes. The purpose of this is study to identify attitudes of the existing multidisciplinary teams toward the implementation of ERPs with a robust nutrition component. The efforts of this study should aid in determining facility and specialty specific needs for the efficacious start and execution of Enhanced Recovery Programs in the Wake Med Health System. Problem Statement/Hypothesis and objectives of the study Enhanced Recovery Programs are evidenced based multidisciplinary pathways that help patients towards an expeditious return of functional capacity. Implementation of ERPs is a difficult task requiring coordination and training of various team members, insuring the inclusion of the expertise of all related disciplines. Nutrition is an important component of the ERP, but clinical nutrition has been left out of the discussion in creating some programs. A facility’s culture can add barriers to the success of an ERPs operation. The objective of this study is to determine obstacles and support for realizing ERPs with a strong nutrition elements for Wake Med Health and Hospital’s surgical practices. Research...
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...trial of Michael Jackson’s physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, who stands accused of involuntary manslaughter in relation to the death of Michael Jackson. Dr. Conrad Murray was hired by concert promoters to serve as Michael Jackson’s personal physician. He was paid $150,000 a month to ensure that Mr. Jackson was well enough to withstand the strenuous rehearsals and grueling schedule of his sold out comeback concerts. The doctor was with the pop star six nights a week, helping him sleep. Mr. Jackson died June 25, 2009 of an apparent overdose. The prosecutors in the case, David Walgren and Deborah Brazil, both Los Angeles deputy district attorneys who, in their opening argument, told jurors that "misplaced trust in the hands of Conrad Murray cost Michael Jackson his life."The Los Angeles County coroner’s office determined that Michael Jackson died of acute propofol poisoning. Propofol is a drug that reduces anxiety and tension, and promotes relaxation and sleep or loss of consciousness. Propofol provides loss of awareness for short diagnostic tests and surgical procedures, sleep at the beginning of surgery, and supplement other types of general anesthetics. "Propofol is an agent that requires very close monitoring and is often limited only to use by anesthesiologists," said Dr. Richard Page, head of cardiology at the University of Washington medical center. "The main issue with this agent is respiratory depression, which in turn could cause cardiac arrest," (Moisse and Childs, 2011). Why...
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...employee discrimination, difficulties in maintaining employee relations, problems with downsizing workforce, workplace bullying, conflict of interest and compliance issues. The research paper also gives recommendations on how to maintain an ethical environment by: hiring of adequate staff, conducting fair employment testing, rewarding disabled employees, educating on age-discrimination, creating a diverse workforce, communicating to build employee relationships, executing a strategic plan to mitigate bullying and presenting fair judgments. The paper also address issues associated with ethics of flu shots, employment hurdles of medical marijuana patients, inequality of women’s compensation and safety hazards of employees. In conclusion, my personal experience with ethical issues at laurel regional hospital is discussed. Introduction: The human resource department is the heart of every healthcare organization. The human resource functions deals with variety of ethical challenges on daily basis. Human resource includes numerous ethical pitfalls that can damage a company’s reputation or financial stability if not kept in consideration. Why is ethics so important in human resource management in healthcare facilities? Basically, ethics provides a set of standards of morality which the doctors, nurses and other healthcare employees have to maintain in the organizations. Hospital’s human resource department...
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...worked, overtime, days off, sleep/wake patterns, errors and near misses. According to Dr. Rogers, fatigue results in: * Forgetfulness * Slowed reaction time * Diminished decision making * Reduced vigilance * Apathy, lethargy * Impaired communication. Delivery of health care requires higher cognitive functions – judgment, logic, complex decision-making, memory, vigilance, information management and communication skills. Fatigued workers try ineffective solutions to problems and neglect activities deemed non-essential. Sleep research indicates that most people need at 7.5-8 hour of sleep each night. Nurses in the study averaged 6.8 hours of sleep. Long hours, and the impact of competing priorities in personal lives impact getting adequate rest prior to working. In more than half the shifts, nurses were unable to take breaks due to shift demands. Findings included correlation among work duration, overtime, number of hours worked and reported errors and near errors. Regardless of the scheduled shift length, overtime increased the odds of reporting error, but the risks significantly increased when overtime followed a twelve-hour shift. On average, nurses worked about 55 minutes longer than scheduled each day, and all participants...
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...HC260DL March 2, 2014 HIPAA And How It Effects Nursing Care: I. What is HIPAA? II. Patient’s Bill of Rights III. Violating HIPAA IV. Ways Hospitals Protect Patient Privacy V. Conclusion: Nurses on the frontline In order to explain how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act are affecting nursing care today, the act itself must be defined. HIPAA is one of the most important acts that have been passed to protect patients’ privacy and give them security. HIPAA privacy standards include some of the most restrictive guidelines in regards to accessing identifiable health information and disclosures. The guidelines were set into place to protect the patient from having their information disclosed verbally, written or by electronic transfer (Pozgar, 2012). The Privacy rule is clearly defined as “HIPAA”, which ensures the privacy and protection of all health information. Before HIPAA many states had their own standards and guidelines for healthcare privacy and practice (ANA, 2014). HIPAA has given us unison and uniformity as a healthcare nation, not just a state. The standards and guidelines protecting the privacy of an individual’s health information were issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HIPAA 101, 2014). The privacy rule, does allow the use of healthcare information to promote the best quality of health care. The rule also protects the confidentiality of the patient. HIPAA also affects the patient’s own...
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...Chapter 33. Professional Communication and Team Collaboration Michelle O’Daniel, Alan H. Rosenstein Background In today’s health care system, delivery processes involve numerous interfaces and patient handoffs among multiple health care practitioners with varying levels of educational and occupational training. During the course of a 4-day hospital stay, a patient may interact with 50 different employees, including physicians, nurses, technicians, and others. Effective clinical practice thus involves many instances where critical information must be accurately communicated. Team collaboration is essential. When health care professionals are not communicating effectively, patient safety is at risk for several reasons: lack of critical information, misinterpretation of information, unclear orders over the telephone, and overlooked changes in status.1 Lack of communication creates situations where medical errors can occur. These errors have the potential to cause severe injury or unexpected patient death. Medical errors, especially those caused by a failure to communicate, are a pervasive problem in today’s health care organizations. According to the Joint Commission (formerly the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, JCHAO), if medical errors appeared on the National Center for Health Statistic’s list of the top 10 causes of death in the United States, they would rank number 5—ahead of accidents, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as AIDS, breast...
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...YIT1 PROFESSIONAL ROLES AND VALUES CORINNE BRONKEMA WESTERN GOVERNOR’S UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONAL ROLES & VALUES PROJECT My personal nursing mission statement is changing and developing as my career advances, however, one core piece will remain constant. I will strive to provide the best, safest, most ethical and compassionate nursing care that I can for all patients and family members with whom I come in contact. I began my post-high school academic career as an accounting major. I enjoyed the challenge of manipulating a report until I had balanced. I thought I had found my calling. As my first semester was nearing an end, I found myself contemplating the thought of sitting behind a desk all day. I wondered if I would find fulfillment in this work as a career? The more I pondered this thought, the more I realized that this was not the right career path for me. I saw images of the medical assistant program in the catalog at the school where I was attending. I could not shake the thought of the medical field for a profession. I attained my medical assistant degree and worked in the field for 10 years. The longer I worked, the more I realized that there was more that I wanted to do, but my current degree restricted me from going further. I researched nursing school programs and selected one with a night/weekend program that would allow me to continue working full-time during my studies. I have a family that I needed to continue to...
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...Management Strategy Sales & Marketing Finance Human Resources IT, Production & Logistics Career & Self-Development Small Business Economics & Politics Industries Global Business • “Hindsight bias” causes you to distort reality by realigning your memories of events to jibe with new information. • “Loss aversion” and the “endowment effect” impact how you estimate value and risk. • Your “two selves” appraise your life experiences differently. • Your “experiencing self” lives your life; your “remembering self” evaluates your experiences, draws lessons from them and decides your future. • These two contrasting systems and selves disprove economic theories that say that people act rationally. Concepts & Trends To purchase personal subscriptions or corporate solutions, visit our website at www.getAbstract.com, send an email to info@getabstract.com, or call us at our US office (1-877-778-6627) or at our Swiss office (+41-41-367-5151). getAbstract is an Internet-based knowledge rating service and publisher of book abstracts. getAbstract maintains complete editorial responsibility for all parts of this abstract. getAbstract acknowledges the...
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...qualitative data to determine actions that individuals and organizations can take to resolve avoidable breakdowns. Imagine you are a nurse who has been given a set of new safety tools that warns you whenever your patients are in danger. That would be powerful, life-saving information, right? But what if nobody listened to you or heeded your warnings? This kind of breakdown is happening in hospitals every day. The quote below is one of 681 collected in the course of this research. “I think nearly every day we are faced with the hand-off allergy list. Frequently, the surgeons will order an antibiotic the patient is allergic to according to the safety checklist. When the patient is out of surgery, nurses have to call the surgeon, the anesthesiologist, and sometimes even the pharmacist before someone listens. Sometimes, we go ahead and give the drugs anyway, but...
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...schools across the country. We must emphasize that you need to be honest in writing your personal statements. If you borrow material or use quotes from other sources, make sure to credit them appropriately. Not giving credit where it is due is not only disastrous to your essay, but it is also illegal. Admissions officers read hundreds, and even thousands of personal statements each year, and have developed a fine tune sense for detecting plagiarism as well as remembering the essays they’ve read. You owe it to yourself to be hones, open, and sincere in writing your personal essay as it is a reflection of yourself and what is important in your life and your decision to pursue a career in medicine. Stanford Essays The following essays were written by real Stanford medical students in preparing their applications. We suggest that you read through all of the essays to get a diverse view of the types of themes and styles which have been successfully used for personal statements. Each personal statement is exactly that, personal. No one format or style will work for everyone. However, there are structures and themes which are common throughout. These essays are meant to give you an in depth look inside previous applicants’ writing and what has gone into their decisions to enter the field of medicine. All essays are presented in their original format, unaltered. In certain cases, personal identifiers have been removed to protect the privacy of the essay writer. These essays...
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...| Employability Skills | | [Date] | [Course title] | | | Employability Skills | | [Date] | [Course title] | | Table of Contents Introduction 2 Task 01: Self-Appraisal Form 3 Key Responsibilities at Work 1.1 3 Performance Objectives at Work 1.2 4 Recommendations for Own Improvement 1.3 5 Effective Motivational Techniques at Work 1.4 5 Communication Skills Needed at Work 2.2 6 Task 02: Continuous Professional Development 8 Solutions to Problem 2.1 8 Evaluating Tools and Methods for Developing Solutions 4.1 9 Strategies for Solving Problems 4.2 10 Time Management Strategies 2.3 10 Evaluating the Impact of Implementing Strategies on the Business 11 10. Evaluating the Impact of Implementing Strategies on the Business 12 Task 03: Collaborative Team Dynamics Journal 13 Team roles and my observations 3.1 13 Team Dynamics 3.2 14 Suggestions 3.3 14 Conclusion 16 Bibliography 17 Introduction Employability limits range unit the favors that each individual needs or should strive for to match the necessities of this economy. As economies amendment with time and advancement, the limits needed in business meanders conjointly change. Some individual who had the best possible employability aptitudes 10 years ago without a doubt doesn't have the employability limits for these days. To place it basically, that individual may not have the endowments that will make him employable. Today's administrators don't give off an impression...
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...care quality ranks among the highest in the state and country. Your heart is in good hands. | Women's CareGenesis Women's services are comprehensive and have you covered no matter your age or stage in life. | Emergency & TraumaGenesis emergency & trauma teams save lives every day with 24/7 expert and timely care. | Orthopedic CareThe Genesis Orthopedic team understands your pain and will help you get back to enjoying life. | NeurosciencesOur team of highly skilled experts will work together to help identify the best treatment for you. | http://www.genesishcs.org The above information is the mission, values, and vision, plus a few of the areas in which they specialize in. Every large organization needs to have a mission statement to tell customers what they strive for. Customers want to know the core values of an organization and where the organization sees itself going in the future. If an organization specializes in an area, people want to know. This is how Genesis Health Care first presents itself to the public. Its mission, vision, and values are for all to see and hear. Genesis Leadership The Genesis administrative level consists of 10 senior leaders who provide strategic oversight, guidance and...
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