...break any federal or state laws? Yes they did because they did follw the compliance of the pci dss. 2. CardSystems Solutions claims to have hired an auditor to assess compliance with PCI DSS and other best practices for ensuring the C-I-A of privacy data for credit card transaction processing. Assuming the auditor did indeed perform a PCI DSS security compliance assessment, what is your assessment of the auditor’s findings? That he either did not do a full audit of the company just showed him part of what he needed to see to pass them so they could operate without prying eyes 3. Can CardSystems Solutions sue the auditor for not performing his or her tasks and deliverables with accuracy? Do you recommend that CardSystems Solutions pursue this avenue? No they did not and if they had credibility then yes they should sue but if they are at fault then they will be brought to trial in civil court 4. Who do you think is negligent in this case study and why? The company and the auditor because neither one did their job to the fullest extent and it cost the company 5. Do the actions of CardSystems Solutions warrant an “unfair trade practice” designation as stated by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)? Yes it does because they did not comply with the standards that were put before them 6. What security policies do you recommend to help with monitoring, enforcing, and ensuring PCI DSS compliance? They should have had the firewalls in place that had monitoring built...
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...NURS 6565 - Main Question Post: Week 4: Discussion – Clinical Challenges for the NP Case Study One: Dismissing the non-compliant patient. Gwen, a 52-year-old Caucasian LPN, recently joined your practice as a new patient. She currently has a BMI of 32, B/P of 142/88. Pulse is 89, the Respiratory rate is 22, Pulse Ox is 96% on Room Air. She is taking Lisinopril 10mg PO daily (when she can remember), Metformin 1000mg PO BID and refuses lab work. Her physical exam is unremarkable and foot exam is normal. She refuses all vaccinations including Prevnar and Influenza. Gwen’s last mammogram and Pap smear were “years ago.” The case study above is a description of health scenario of Gwen an LPN whose health is at peril. According to Westrick and Jacob (2016), this is a description of health care advice of patient non-compliant behavior. Gwen is an LPN who indeed understand her health conditions, however, fails to comply with the appropriate medical process, problem conforming to treatment care modality thus Gwen fails to accede to what is properly related to negligence. The Legal Implication and Key Component of Malpractice Policy in this Case There are indeed two components of malpractice policy related to...
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...1. Introduction 1 1.1. About ISO 9000 1 1.2. Purpose of internal quality audit 1 1.3. Report structure 1 2. Audit review 2 2.1. Non-compliances 2 2.1.1. Case study 2 – Service and parts processes 2 2.1.2. Case study 3 – QMS manual 3 2.2. Potential for improvement 4 2.2.1. Case study 2 – Service and parts processes 4 2.2.2. Case study 3 – QMS manual 5 2.3. Good practice 5 2.3.1. Case study 2 – Service and parts processes 5 2.3.2. Case study 3 – QMS manual 6 3. Summary 8 4. Appendix 11 Introduction About ISO 9000 ISO 9000 is a family of international standards related to quality management systems (QMS) that facilitates mutual understanding across domestic and international trade. The standards are published by the International Organization for Standardization and available in the UK through the British Standard Institute. ISO 9000:2008 sets down the principles behind the quality management and specifies the QMS terminology, thus forms the basis for the standards within the ISO 9000 family. ISO 9001:2008 specifies the requirements for a QMS an organisation has to fulfil to meet the standard. ISO 9004:2008 provides guidelines for a QMS that aim to improve the performance of the organisation and the satisfaction of both stakeholders and customers. ISO 9000 represents an international consensus on good quality management practices and can be understood as a generic framework to manage a business’ processes to deliver superior quality...
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...care. However, a hospital’s failure to follow its own rules, regulations, and policies is evidence of negligence. 3. Discharge instructions can be construed to be part of a hospital’s rules, regulations and policies. 4. Unclear, or ambiguous discharge instructions can place the hospital at risk for increased liability for negligence if a casual connection can be made to a patient’s injury. Therefore, to protect itself, hospitals should be proactive in establishing clear discharge protocols and individualized discharge instructions. IV. Review of the Law In the case of Earline Therry, et al v. State of Louisiana, through the Department of Health and Hospitals and University Medical Center of Lafayette, Louisiana, a summary judgment was granted for the defendants based upon the plaintiff’s inability to establish a causal connection between a breach of the standard of care and any resultant injuries. In this case, Mrs. Therry accused the Defendants of negligence for allowing her to develop digitalis toxicity due to a one-day delay in returning to the hospital. Mrs. Therry’s discharge instructions stated to return to the emergency room if she had any problems. Mrs. Therry was discharged on two diuretics, possibly causing dehydration, which as one medical panel review board member concluded, could be a possible cause of the...
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...TAX COMPLIANCE: AN ANALYSIS ON TAX KNOWLEDGE AND DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS Noor Suhaila Shaharuddin (2012) & Mohd Rizal Palil (PhD). Tax Compliance: An Analysis On Tax Knowledge And Demographic Factors. ABSTRACT Empirical research on tax compliance has shown that knowledge of taxation is essential as determinants of tax behavior. In other words, to be tax compliant individual taxpayers need to possess some basic knowledge on personal taxation such as chargeability of income, exemptions, reliefs, rebates in order to compute tax liability correctly. Taxpayers are less compliant if they do not understand the basic concept of taxation. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine the effect of tax knowledge in understanding the tax compliance behaviors. In addition, this study also examined three common demographic variables that may be relevant in explaining tax compliance behavior. A total of 50 questionnaires were distributed to all academicians at Faculty of Management and Muamalah, KUIS. Out of the 50 questionnaires distributed, a total of 39 usable responses were received, which represents response rate of 78 per cent. The results show about 35.8 per cent of the respondents had high level of tax knowledge, 41 per cent had medium tax knowledge and the remaining of 23.2 per cent had low level of basic tax knowledge. Findings also revealed that marital status had significantly affecting on tax compliance. However, the other two variables namely gender and age were insignificant...
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...MARINE ENVIRONMENT LAWS IN MALAYSIA DEVELOPMENT AND COMPLIANCE Outline of Presentation • Introduction • Objectives of Study • Methodology • Development of Marine Environment Laws in Malaysia • Compliance with Marine Environment Laws in Malaysia • Conclusions Introduction – Environmental Law • Body of international convention, domestic statutes • • • or laws, state or provincial ordinances and local government bylaws that govern human activities which impact the environment. Established to: - avoid tragedy of the commons - eliminate free riders in environmental protection and control of pollution And in response to: - the growing development of environmental ethics - the changing requirement of international law Tool for implementing policies Objectives of Study • Examine marine environment laws in Malaysia in terms of its development and its coverage; • Assess the level of compliance with marine environment laws in Malaysia and what it means in terms of environmental management; and • Identify means to promote compliance with environmental laws. Research Questions • How has marine environmental law in Malaysia changed over the years? • Are our laws adequate in dealing with marine environment issues? • What is the level of compliance with our marine environment laws? • Can the compliance level be improved? • What are the factors which drive environmental law development in Malaysia? Methodology •...
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...collar crime in the Nigerian public sector and the extent to which existing accounting standards are helping to stem the occurrence of the crime. Two null hypotheses were formulated and the primary data used to test the hypotheses were obtained using structured questionnaire while secondary data were obtained from annual accounts of State Governments and reports from similar studies. The study used averages, percentages, chisquare and Spearman’s ranked correlation coefficient tested at 5% level of significance for analyses of the data obtained during the study. It also made use of averages and simple percentage. The study revealed that noncompliance with accounting standards is responsible for the increasing spate of white collar crime in the Nigerian public sector and that absence of forensic accounting courses in the training programme of practicing accountants are responsible for inability of auditors to detect, early enough, white collar crime in the public sector thereby aggravating the scam. The study also revealed that flexibility of principle based on standard is a serious threat to enforcement of compliance with the standards especially in a developing economy such as Nigeria. Hence, forensic accounting courses should be incorporated into the final level professional examination of the two accounting institutes in Nigeria. Keywords: White collar crime, accounting standards, Nigerian public sector INTRODUCTION White collar crime is becoming endemic in developing economies....
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...In medicine, compliance (also adherence or capacitance) describes the degree to which a patient correctly follows medical advice. Most commonly, it refers to medication or drug compliance, but it can also apply to other situations such as medical device use, self care, self-directed exercises, or therapy sessions. Both the patient and the health-care provider affect compliance, and a positive physician-patient relationship is the most important factor in improving compliance,[1] although the high cost of prescription medication also plays a major role.[2] Compliance is commonly confused with concordance. Concordance is the process by which a patient and clinician make decisions together about treatment.[3] Non-compliance is a major obstacle to the effective delivery of health care. Estimates from the World Health Organization (2003) indicate that only about 50% of patients with chronic diseases living in developed countries follow treatment recommendations.[1] In particular, low rates of adherence to therapies for asthma, diabetes, and hypertension are thought to contribute substantially to the human and economic burden of those conditions.[1] Compliance rates may be overestimated in the medical literature, as compliance is often high in the setting of a formal clinical trial but drops off in a "real-world" setting.[4] Major barriers to compliance are thought to include the complexity of modern medication regimens, poor "health literacy" and lack of comprehension of treatment...
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...Lecturer Name: Course ID: Due Date Table Content 1.0 Introduction 4 2.0 Literature Research 4 2.1 Summary of the literatures 4 2.11 Kenneth, M. A, Onyeka, K. O & Paul, N. (2008) - Journal of Business Ethics 4 2.12 Mette, A & Tage, S. (2009) - Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 5 2.13 Francesco, C, Pierpaolo, P & Barbara, S. (2008) - Journal of Cleaner Production 5 2.14 Jorgensen, H, Peder, M & Margaret, J 2003 - The Word Bank Group & IFC 6 2.15 Esben, R. P & Mette, A. (2006) - Journal of Public Affairs 6 2.2 Group materials under meaningful themes and critical discussion 7 2.3 The practical and theoretical implication of the findings 9 2.4 Evidence from published cases and empirical studies 11 2.5 managerial recommendations in translating CSR in global SC into practice 12 3.0 Conclusions and suggestions for future research 14 4.0 Reference List 15 Executive Summary Integrated supply chain has becoming a significantly important role in the competitive landscape because companies are searching for strategic benefits. Apart from the advantages derived from those more coordinated supply chains, certain social obligations become a concern to business. In reality, the codes of conduct in terms of the CSR are developed by many organizations, especially the buying companies, in order to manage the business behavior of their partners with procurement and supply chain system. It makes it clear that all purchasing...
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...cting as a “compelling event” in the adoption of new breeds of risk management and corporate compliance products and services are the recently highlighted fraudulent business practices occurring within many of America’s Fortune 1000 corporations. Governmental and regulatory investigations have identified, secured, and utilized significant amounts of incriminating evidence from within the corporate Information Technology (IT) infrastructure. Purposeful fraudulent activities aside, second-level effects are now beginning to trickle down into thousands of well run corporations that operate within highly regulated market sectors. For many, their only “questionable act” is a commitment to the deployment of technologies and business practices that promise to improve workforce productivity, client and supplier relationships, and shareholder return. The challenges for corporate entities to address the issues is often one of trying to “herd cats.” The insatiable desire for technology that enables real-time communication, as well as immediate capabilities to develop and distribute information has created a huge information management quandary. Our ability to communicate and distribute information “at will” has created potential significant corporate risk associated with failure to adhere to governmental, industrial, or self-imposed corporate compliance metrics. Although much is in place to regulate previous generations of communication and information distribution methods, recent technological...
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...recent review has presented some issues that have raised concern. Conformity, compliance and adherence are all forms of social influence and these can occur when a person’s behaviour and emotions are being affected by other people, or groups of social classes. In some circumstances social influence can be direct in the shape of advertising and media, which are good examples of channels that can influence attitudes and behaviours. In other situations social influence can be very subtle and indirect, that is of family, partners, friends, classmates, celebrities and so on, and the fashion in which information is presented, can often determine the degree of compliance. Thus the term social influence can refer to the way in which other people’s conduct is influenced by the presence and action of others. When referring to a patient’s compliance the terms ‘adherence’ and ‘compliance’ are used interchangeably (Psychology for Nurses, 2009, p. 432). Compliance was commonly used during early stages of research, and it investigated whether a patient followed their medical regime. Hayes et al. (1979) defined compliance as, ‘The extent to which the patient’s behaviour (in terms of medication, following diets or other lifestyle changes) coincides with medical and health advice’, Philip Ley (1981, 1989) developed the cognitive hypothesis model of compliance, and according to this model, patient compliance can be predicted by; patient’s satisfaction with the process of the consultation;...
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...Case Study 2 2. What role did top management commitment play in developing the ethical work climate and organizational performance seen at Alcoa? What other ethical safeguards are mentioned in the case to support the company's effort at developing a strong ethical culture? Management role is always vital in any work climate and in that respect the role that Alcoa played cannot be ignored. From the beginning the company incorporated their values and documented what they thought was relevant regarding health and safety of their employees. Furthermore, they devised a plan for employees to follow the codes of health and safety so the company could achieve their goal of providing for stakeholders. The company considered the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act with all of the basic elements included. 4. Can Alcoa's "values in practice" be adopted by other organizations as a universal set of ethical standards leading to ethical employee behavior? Measures that Alcoa implemented were crucial to setting a standard for universal ethical codes and enhanced the ability of each employee to act in an ethical way. Furthermore, by employees complying with polices and procedures set by Alcoa, this created an environment of success for all. Elements of ethics and compliance program include: • Publishing the Guide to Business Conduct and other directional documents; • Deploying global business conduct training and communications to all employees; • Managing...
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...Health and Safety in the health and social workplace Name: OLUWOLE. F. OMITOYIN Introduction: This essay intends to demonstrate a clear understanding of health and safety legislation and its implementation in health and social care settings. A review of systems, policies and procedures for communicating information in relation to legislations and individual responsibilities in term of managing health and safety will be considered. While safety priorities and how they are being implemented will be looked into. The use of information from care plan; the importance of risk assessment, the impact of policies on health care practices and how dilemma situation are managed and in addition consequences of non-compliance with law and regulation will be discussed. Lastly, the essay will critically look at how health and safety arrangement are monitored and review and also analyse the effectiveness of positive health and safety culture in health care organisation. In conclusion, my own contribution to health and safety needs will be discussed and recommendation made. Task 1: 1.1 According to oxford English dictionary (2014) “Policy is defined as a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organisation to direct and limit its action in pursuit of a long term goals,” examples smoking policy, manual handling policy. While a procedure on the other hand is an established or official ways of doing things or a series of actions conducted in a certain order or manner...
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...unit on an involuntary basis or on voluntary basis. When a patient is deemed dangerous to himself/herself or others, they are admitted to the psychiatric unit against their wishes, or involuntarily. When a person goes to the hospital on their own to get help, they are admitted on a voluntary basis. In both cases, the patient is evaluated, stabilized in the Psychiatric ER, and then sent to the inpatient unit. Once they’re in the in-patient unit, they refuse treatment and become non-compliant to medication. The longer they refuse, the sicker they get, and begin to act out. The last option is to force medicate the patient, and that is not a pretty picture. Before it escalates to the point of forcing medication, are there any interventions a nurse can employ to lead a patient to compliance? Strategies/interventions nurses used for non-compliant patients were engagement, formulating a therapeutic relationship, and finding out why. (Vuckovich, 2009). Self-determination was a concept discussed by Corrigan et al. (2012). Interventions that promoted self-determination led to patient compliance. This paper will explore those interventions, and how they can achieve compliance to treatment in psychiatric patients. Change Model Overview Rosswurm and Larrabee (1999) proposed a model for change based on theoretical and research literature, related to evidence-based practice, research utilization, standardized language, and change theory. This model for change is a guide used to...
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...Renal Transplant and Medication Compliance: Patient-Centered Nursing Interventions will Facilitate Better Patient Compliance of Medications in Post-Renal Transplant Recipient Yonica Jamieson Jersey College Abstract Patient in compliance with prescribed medications or treatments is warrant, in any medical condition. This research paper, focused and took a look at the effects of non-compliance with immunosuppressant medications in post-renal transplant recipients, such as graft rejection. Identified some barriers to compliance and discussed how patient-centered nursing interventions should be used to alleviate these barriers and bring about compliance with immunosuppressant medications, at the same time decreasing graft rejection in renal transplant recipients. Renal Transplant and Medication Compliance: Patient-centered Nursing Interventions will Facilitate Better Patient Compliance of Medications in Post-Renal Transplant Recipients In medicine, the term non-compliance is commonly used in regard to a patient who does not take a prescribed medication or follow prescribed course treatments (MedicineNet, 2012). This is one of the major issues with post-renal transplantation recipients. Renal transplant is a surgery done to implant a healthy kidney into a person with end-stage renal disease. End-stage renal disease is when the kidney stops function all together, that makes the person unable to live without dialysis...
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