...Minnesota v. Riff The Minnesota v. Riff court case is complex and has different types of communication involved. In the case, both written and oral communications are presented. During this paper we will discuss the communication used for the prosecution, defense, witnesses, and the judge. We will also discuss the guidelines for each communication in the court case. The duties of the prosecution, defense, witnesses, and the judge are important to every trial. The prosecuting attorney communicates both orally and in writing. The main goal of this attorney is to prove that this defendant is undeniably guilty to the judge and jury. He does this by beginning orally with an opening statement, stating that Ronald Rift did knowingly commit the crime of Breaking and Entering (1) 2911.13 F5; and Burglary (1) 2911.12 F2; on 09/30/11 between 12:10 and 12:20 A.M. This was located at Marquette’s Market 1234 Main St. Midtown, Minnesota 44333. The owner is Speedy Marquette (owner of Marquette’s Market). It is up to the prosecution to share all written evidence with the defense attorney before the trial and to present all evidence against the defendant to the judge and jury. It is also up to this attorney to introduce the witnesses for the prosecution and to examine them orally before the cross examination of the defense attorney. The witnesses: Soapy Waters, Otis Ripple, Marty Martini, Betty Bitty, C. Sharp, Guido Concertino, Rusty Fender, and the arresting officer are orally examined by the...
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...Delhi Bar Council takes suo motu action against advocate AP Singh for "professional misconduct" Pallavi Saluja On September 17, 2013 - 6:51pm 7 The Bar Council of Delhi today issued a show cause notice to defence lawyer AP Singh for making unwarranted statements outside the court premises after the sentencing of his clients, convicts in the December 16 gang rape case. Singh had defended accused Akshay Thakur and Vinay Sharma in the recently concluded Delhi gang rape trial. Speaking to Bar & Bench, the Delhi Bar Council’s Chairman, Surya Prakash Khatry said, “We have issued a show cause notice to AP Singh. We have taken a suo motu action against him for his “professional conduct”. We have gone through the newspapers and various clippings capturing his remarks. The Bar Council has unanimously decided to issue notice. Out of 25 members, about 19 members were present at the meeting today”. Singh has to now either appear before the Council or file his reply by October 11 this year. Singh is in trouble for his remarks to media persons that he would burn his daughter alive if she has premarital sex or moves around at night with her boyfriend. However, Singh later told media that he had made the remarks under pressure from an individual, whom he described as an “anti-social element.” The Bar Council Secretary Murari Tiwari told Bar & Bench that they had received several oral complaints from various NGOs and other groups condemning the statement made by Singh after...
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...assisting the managing partner in preparing a budget, and making recommendations with regard to changes in systems and purchases. Office managers typically do not have degrees in business. In order to successfully manage a law office, regardless of size of the profession, one should adhere to some basic guidelines. They are given as below: Location of the office The office a lawyer should be proximity to the courts so that it is convenient to the clients, lawyer himself, his juniors and other staff. A lawyer appearing for district courts, High Courts, Supreme Court etc. apart from his regular courts locally may also have the office in the city in which they practice. As per Rule 5(iii) of the Supreme Court Rules 1966 every advocate appearing before the Supreme Court shall have an office in Delhi within a radius of 16 kilometers from the Supreme Court. Size and features of the office: The office space should be sufficient to accommodate the seniors’ office, juniors’ office, staff working area, meeting hall / waiting hall, rest rooms, library and documentation room. The office should have properly...
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...Courtroom Observation and Report I attended a session in Courtroom 265 on September 20, 2012. The 28-year-old Defendant was being held in the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Center on 3 separate charges, and this trial was his sentencing hearing. While the Prosecutor and the Defendant’s lawyer waited in front of the Judge, the Defendant appeared on the television screen. His lawyer said that he was pleading guilty to mischief, possession of a weapon, and violating his probation. The Judge told the Defendant that the Prosecutor will explain each charge, and he can either agree or disagree with what has been said. The Prosecutor started with the case of mischief. On June 26th, the Defendant’s parents phoned police because their son had wrecked their home while they were out. When they returned, they found him outside breaking windows with a hammer. After the Prosecutor finished, the lawyer revealed that his client suffers from schizophrenia. The Judge asked the Defendant if this series of events was correct, and the Defendant said yes. His guilty plea was accepted. In the weapon possession case, the Prosecutor explained that some City of Edmonton workers were fixing a sidewalk when the Defendant approached and started yelling at them for “destroying” the sidewalk. He then took out a hunting knife and began waving it at the workers, who retreated to their vehicle to call police. The responding officer reported that the Defendant mentioned he was not taking his medication...
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...Counselor has just started the school year, to his surprise he gets a visit from a student who appears to be having problems sleeping. The counselor quickly assets without assessing the student. As the counselor sat down a learned more about the student’s situation and concerns. Steve the student was struggling with several issues one being a new student so far away from home for the first time made Steve nervous and causing him to lose sleep, Steve also had obvious signs of medical issues. Steve expressed feeling nervous about being far away from home for the first time. After many attempts by doctors and staff members get him to accept his limitations and very clear as to what he would be able to do and not do Steve decide to take the longer difficult path to recovery and accomplishing his life time life and educational goals. Steve felt he only had one option at becoming normal which was overcoming the obstacles many had said he would never do again. After meeting with Steve a few times I feel the counselor learned and understood more about Steve and his everyday struggles with physical impairments. I feel the counselor learned that although he is the counselor clients/students have the ability and power to change his view point and perception. One should never take someone’s visual appearance at face value. As the counselor counsels and gives advice he/she is also receiving a great influence them self. The counselor/student relationship in this case started out as the...
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...institutions and systems that not only benefits the clients/patients, but also improves their own overall satisfaction with both the jobs and the professional outcomes. Advocacy is an obligation of all health care professionals because people come seeking care from diverse environments and not everyone has equal access to appropriate and necessary care, resources and opportunities. Advocacy is both the obligation and the opportunity to assist them in meeting their basic needs. The American Nurses Association defines the practice of nursing as “The protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.”. The ANA also addresses the importance of patient advocacy in their Code of Ethics (Provision 3): “The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient.”....
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...Patient Confidentiality As healthcare providers, maintaining a patient’s confidentiality, human dignity and privacy is expected at all times. Nurses are faced with maintaining patient confidentiality on a daily basis. The Coded of Ethics for Nurses is the framework of nonnegotiable ethical standards and obligations that all nurses are to uphold. Nurses are to be accountable for their actions and are expected to advocate and strive to protect the rights, health and safety of patients (American Nurses Association, 2011). Constant patient turnovers, visitors and numerous workers in and out of the emergency area can make it difficult for staff to maintain patient confidentiality. Due to lack of space and to give quick group report, end-of-shift report is often given in ear shot of other patients and visitors. At the structure of the hospital does not allow space so that the patients can be treated and their care discussed privately. These are a few examples that contribute to the ineffectiveness of maintaining patient confidentiality. In this paper, strategies will be discussed to address the issue of patient confidentiality and privacy. Nurses who work in the emergency room are faced with challenge of maintaining patient confidentiality. Patient Confidentiality in the Emergency Room Emergency room staff members are faced with issues of confidentiality on a daily bases. From the beginning of the triage process, the breach of patient confidentiality begins. Patients are identified...
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...diagnoses and medications, it is more important than ever that nurses advocate for their patients. Nurses are usually the first and last person a patient interacts with in the hospital or outpatient setting. They are also the person patients have the most contact with during their stay in the hospital and patients tend to express their concerns more openly with nurses then they do with anyone else. It’s up to the nurse to then advocate for the patient...
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...Nursing Professionals Accountability of Nursing Professionals for Patient Safety Practices Related to Informed Consent Lavonia Deanne Bishop Grand Canyon University NURS-430V Professional Dynamics 23-Aug-2010 (0106) September 19, 2010 Accountability of Nursing Professionals for Patient Safety Practices Related to Informed Consent Accountability in nursing can be defined as the state in which the nurse is responsible for upholding a professional agreement with the patient to provide services and be held answerable for the outcomes of behaviors related to these services (Hood, 2010). One of the main areas we are held accountable for as professional nurses is the safety of our patients. After an evidence-based review of patient safety practices, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has identified numerous opportunities for quality improvement. The practices identified were rated by strength of evidence, with the highest rated being listed first. This paper will examine practice number five, asking patients to recall and restate what they have been told during the informed consent and the responsibility of the professional nurse in this process. The Informed Consent Process According to Terry (2007) informed medical consent occurs when a patient autonomously and expressly permits a professional to perform a medical act on that patient or include the patient in a research project. Patients are now encouraged to be more informed consumers and take an active part...
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...will try to summarize the issues. Summary of Current Staffing and Budget for Medical-Surgical beds ------------------------------------------------- Currently, Christ Advocate has a total nursing hours per patient in medical-surgical of 8.93 for the 394 authorized beds. Since the hospital has chosen to not use LPN employees, the nursing staff is a mix of RNs and assistants. Since the budget is set for this year, in an attempt to increase efficiency and decrease readmits, I propose that staffing remain at 8.93 with an increase in RNs to at least 7.0 and decrease assistants to 1.93. With this mix, the budget will be increase by approximately $4K. These monies can be recouped in the decrease of Medicare penalty by having more RN hours per patient thereby decreasing Christ Advocate 30-day readmission rate of identified patients (Illinois Department of Public Health 2016). ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Impact of Medicare Reimbursement bonus/penalty on staffing Christ Advocate Medical Center currently experience the second highest readmission penalty in the state and we have increase our penalty each of the reported years, 96% in 2013 to 2.41% in 2016. To reduce our penalty we must increase staffing and decrease the number of hours per patient for nursing. This increase will increase staff cost by a relatively small amount, $4K. However, we stand a good chance of decreasing...
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...Advocacy In my care support class we learnt a lot about advocating for a patient. Advocacy – a person who relays the wants/needs of an individual who for reasons cannot speak for themselves. Advocacy commences when a person represents the interests of another person. This requires complete loyalty of the person acting as an advocate, who represents the wishes, needs and interests of the patient as if it was your own needs, and what advocacy means: the one that pleads, defends or supports the cause or interest of the patient for whatever reason they cannot speak for themselves or on behalf of someone in their best interest, e.g. someone who has not got a voice/confidents or cannot be heard, e.g. children, elderly, dementia patients. There are different forms of advocacy: Self-advocacy: is the ability to speak up for yourself and the things that are very important to you, self-advocacy means you are able to ask for what you need and tell other people about your thoughts and feelings. Self-Advocacy means you know your rights and responsibilities, and you are able to make choices and decisions that affect your life. It is important to learn self-advocacy skills because it helps you decide what you want and what to expect. When you have good self-advocacy skills you can have more control and make the life decisions that are best for you. (advocacy.com) Legal advocacy: involves solicitors protecting their client’s rights and interests in a court of law. i.e. a person’s will or their...
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...meaningful way. In addition, I always keep in mind that I have to treat my patients as I would want my family and myself treated. I believe that the core of nursing is knowledge, caring, and compassion. Advocating for my patients and their family, treating my patients with respect and dignity is very important to be. I believe that the focus of nursing is to advocate, have compassion, and respect patients and their family. When I am in the situation that my patient is unpleasant to me, I will keep in mind that they are going through very difficult time and I have to stay calm, and professional to them. My vision for myself as a nurse is that I will do my best to advocate for my patients, and to keep the trust that they entrusted me with. I will always respect their values and beliefs. To live out my philosophy of nursing, every day I must remember this about the following: 1. My patients trust me to practice ethically and always perform within my scope and standard of my practice. 2. My patients’ families in trusted me to care for their love ones, and I should not break it. 3. My fellow health care professionals and I are working as a team to help our patients. I will respect my fellow health care professional with respect, and I will value their opinions. 4. For my own health, it is my responsibility to make sure that I maintain optimal health and wellness for my patients. I have to make sure that I follow a healthy lifestyle by...
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...And Systems Leadership Barbara De Groot, RN November 14, 2014 Introduction Patient advocacy extends back to Florence Nightingale and remains relevant today. While Nightingale did not explicitly address advocacy in nursing, she did demonstrate advocacy in many ways (Selanders and Crane, 2012). Today advocacy extends beyond the individual patient to local and global populations, and nationally and globally to the nursing profession itself. The purpose of this paper is to describe this author’s role as a moral agent or advocate for a specific issue in this author’s work, and explain one or more negative outcomes that may result if this role is not fulfilled. This paper will also analyze the skills, dispositions, and strategies necessary to help this author fulfill this role, and explain this author’s motivation for taking a stand. Role as an Advocate Advocacy has been described in ethical and legal frameworks, and as a philosophical foundation for practice (Negarandeh et al., 2007). Malik (1997) states that “the core condition which demands advocacy action is the vulnerability of a patient, either personal vulnerability due to illness and/or the vulnerability to risks inherent in the institutional processes to which the patient is exposed in the health care system.” As a nurse discharge planner case manager, part of this author’s job is to identify potential barriers to patient care and safe discharge. As a nurse, this author also has the responsibility to speak...
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...violations to whether or not this patient has/had the cognitive ability to understand the execution of an advanced directive and Power of Attorney. Advance Directives are put in place for this very reason. It eliminates the need for family members to make a choice in the heat of the moment and also respects the wishes of the person whom it affects directly. Although Mr. E’s hypoxia could affect his ability to think clearly one cannot assume that he has an altered level of consciousness nor the inability to execute an advance directive prior to this situation. His advance directive clearly states that he does not wish to be placed on a ventilator. The Wyoming Nurse Practice Act clearly states in Chapter 7, Section 6 (ii) Advocates for the client, and then further states in subsection (A) respects clients rights, concerns, decisions, and dignity (Fowler, 2008). Failure to follow the nurse practice act in your state could mean that you will have your license suspended or may lose your license completely. It would depend on what the State Nursing Board decides and what they find in their investigation. It would be very unfortunate for a nurse to lose their license this way. Unfortunately the nurse in this situation did not advocate for this patient, she allowed the physician to violate the patients advanced directive wishes to not be placed on a respirator as well as allow someone who was not legally responsible to make medical decisions for this patient. This nurse also withheld pertinent...
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