...Taking a Stand Barbara De Groot, RN Walden University NURS 6053, Inter-professional Organizational 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...
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...Taking a Stand: A Tuition Increase in Washington State Can you read this? If so, then you should be glad you earning your education now and not in the near future when there could possibly be no textbooks or educators to teach you how to read or study. With today’s growing financial issues it is not only affecting people and businesses but also affecting our schools. Should community colleges increase their tuitions for the upcoming year by ten percent? I don’t think ten percent is necessary but an increase is most definitely needed. According to the American Association of School Administrators nineteen percent of the nation’s school districts will have fewer librarians in the 2011 school year. Ten percent of the schools in the nation said they already cut there staffing in the 2010 school year. (Blankinship) With cuts to the staff our schools will not be able to support more students, which will in turn cut the number of classes offered each year. If the numbers of classes offered each year are reduced then the number of students attending the schools each year will also be reduced. The lower the number of students enrolled each year means less income each year for the schools, creating a never ending spiral. It won’t just stop at the librarians either, once there are no librarians left what is next? After school sports, elective classes, and the friendly lunch ladies where does it stop? Granted there will be some people that argue “can’t we do something...
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...Gun control is a complex and divisive issue in America. People who are in favor of gun control foresee no violence whatsoever if guns were banned. But is that a realistic thought? I will carefully analyze details discussing how an actual gun ban would result. Would a gun ban make the world safer to live in? Would it make the world more dangerous? Prompted by horrific elementary school shooting, President Barack Obama tasked his administration with creating concrete proposals to reduce gun violence that has plagued the country. The President includes both legislative proposals that would need to be acted on by Congress and executive actions he can perform on his own. Many of the executive actions involve the president directing agencies to do a better job of sharing information. Proposed congressional actions include, but are not limited to: (1) Requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales, including those by private sellers that currently are exempt; (2) Reinstating and strengthening the ban on assault weapons that was in place from 1994 to 2004; (3) Limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds; (4) Financing programs to train more police officers, first responders and school officials on how to respond to active armed attacks; and (5) Providing financing to expand mental health programs for young people. A national survey of police officers show overwhelming support for the Second Amendment and the country’s strong tradition of gun ownership, while opposing...
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...Taking a bold stand against issues takes a great amount of courage. Taking a bold stand can affect the people around you. It can help people in ways that can’t even be seen. A time in my life where I have stood up for something might have been a small something, but it is a big issue even today. I stood up for bullying. I stood up for a fellow student who didn’t have the courage to speak out for themselves. I stood up for anyone who didn’t have the same amount of courage as I did. I stood up for what any human bean should. I stood up for someone’s life, happiness, and freedom to be who they are. When someone bullies another it can take a person’s happiness away. It can take someone’s reason for living away. It can take someone’s life away. And I couldn’t let that happen. If no other person could speak up I would. If no one could stop it I would. So I did. I made it known that it was wrong and needed to be stop. I took a bold stand. When it was all said and done it didn’t stop immediately it took time and more people to get involved. The victims eventually got courage to stand up for their own sleeves. They will no longer be brought down by the influence of others. They will always remember the day they gain that courage, courage to be who they are and not be judged and tormented because of it. That is the outcome of my bold...
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...The debate for scientific accuracy has been a hot topic for many years. One aspect of study suggests that focusing on logical, ‘proven’ studies of science are the pinnacle of any teaching, while the other says that freedom of speech in an academic capacity is the primary goal. The way an individual looks upon such questions is mainly based on upbringing and social views. Someone raised in a religious household is bound to view the debate on intelligent design, creationism, and evolution in a radically different light than that of someone raised without religion as a basis for understanding. The concerns voiced throughout the article of choice about Professor Hedin are deep and wide. They are mostly based on the principles of freedom of academic speech, generic freedom of speech, sound science principles, and whether or not it is robbing a professor of their freedom of academic speech by forcing them to focus on what the majority of scientific scholars view as legitimate. The idea that Professor Hedin’s teaching on Intelligent Design is somehow a legal dilemma seems to be grasping for traction. That is to say, it is a far stretch of the imagination. It would seem that though it may be a legal dilemma, it is much more an ethical issue. The First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but it does not protect nor apply in this situation, because the university does not require Hedin’s course ‘Boundaries of Science’ to be taken. PZ Meyers, a biologist at the University of Minnesota...
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...Vaccines are responsible for many global public health successes, such as the eradication of smallpox and important reductions in other serious infections like polio and measles. Even so, vaccinations have also long been the subject of various ethical arguments. The key ethical debates related to vaccine regulation, development, and use generally revolve. “A discussion of the ethics of vaccine rationing leads to a review of suffering due to pneumonia, particularly in the elderly” (Zimmerman, 2007). Rationing of scarce vaccine supplies will likely be required when the next pandemic occurs, raising the questions about how to ration and upon what principles. Because, influenza pandemics have differing mortality patterns occur. Vaccine manufacturers and essential healthcare workers can be justified with either principle. Therefore, the unequal principles of choosing based on social worth or those in whom vaccination is most likely to medically succeed raise substantial justice issues. “A healthy person is unlikely to die from the flu and therefore does not need the vaccine as much as a senior, an asthmatic, or others who are at-risk of serious complications” (Ludwig, 2014). Equal principles of medical neediness and random chance avoid justice concerns and are proposed. A framework that uses multiple principles to address influenza vaccine rationing in light of a shortage is recommended. As the various prioritization models would suggest, there is no single, simple solution for allocating...
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...People need to help another person’s life out, take action, take control of own life. People need to stand up for what’s right and to speak up for those who need a voice. Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech and the Victims of the Holocaust help my claim because both of these sources state that we should take action and try to speak up and make a difference. Anne Frank talks about how to stay positive in conflict, though the Frank family took action by going into hiding,she stays more positive doing something about it. As these works show, taking action, taking control of the conflict is the best way to respond to it, taking action is taking control of your life, your own future. Elie Wiesel gives a speech about how he survived of the Auschwitz...
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...To Kill A Mockingbird Argumentative Essay Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is the story of a man who took a stand when no one else would. The book takes place in the 1930s and is about an integrative lawyer named Atticus Finch and his two children Scout and Jem who face difficulties when Atticus has to take a case for a colored man. Many people are upset when Atticus actually defends him because most lawyers would not try to defend a black person due to race. By taking this case, Atticus potentially puts his family in danger because of a careless man named Bob Ewell who is out to get Atticus and his family because he thinks the colored man, Tom Robinson, raped his daughter Mayella. Even though Atticus knows he won’t win this case, he still tries, and that shows how he has integrity. This is how it makes...
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...1. | Question : | Please choose the best mechanics correction for the sentence below: “To thine own self be true”, says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | | Student Answer: | | “To thine own self be true” says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | | | “To thine own self be true,” Says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | | | “To thine own self be true,” says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | | | “To thine own self be true”, Says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | Instructor Explanation: | For information on how to correct a mechanical error with a quotation, visit the Ashford Writing Center https://awc.ashford.edu/grammar-punctuation-quotation-marks.html | | | | Points Received: | 0 of 1 | | Comments: | | | | Question 2. | Question : | Please choose the best mechanics correction for the sentence below: In The Writer in All of Us, author June Gould (1989) tells writers that the process of revising an essay allows them to “see with new eyes.” (p. 121). | | | Student Answer: | | In The Writer in All of Us, author June Gould (1989) tells writers that the process of revising an essay allows them to “see with new eyes (p. 121).” | | | | In The Writer in All of Us, author June Gould (1989; p. 121) tells writers that the process of revising an essay allows them to “see with new eyes.” | | | | In The Writer...
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...the right thing. “Take sides”, Wiesel said. Why should a person take sides if they aren’t involved with the issue? Did Jesus take our side even though our sinning wasn’t His issue? Yes. Jesus went so far with doing what He felt was right that He died. Taking sides makes a huge impact on any situation. Even for a simple vote. Whether or not the decision was for the victim or the oppressor a side is taken in the matter. If a side has not been taken then it automatically goes to the oppressor because a stand wasn’t taken for the victim. No matter how a person may feel or what has been done to them it doesn’t give them the right to bully or show “oppression” towards someone else. Although neutrality may keep down confusion or drama with someone who isn’t involved in the problem, it really causes more problems. By problems I mean making the...
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...discusses the intersections of gender, race, environment, and cultural injustices that were taking place around her in Kenya and how our world needs to strive for not only independence and freedom, but to have it result in interdependence as a whole. Many of the points that Maathai makes throughout this beautiful, empowering memoir, can be applied to the society we are currently living in. She makes a point to discuss these various injustices stemming from a corrupt government and ruling system, but that her fellow Kenyans were perpetuating these injustices. Maathai makes a strong point about this when she says, “We cannot deny this fact of history, although being in one country does not mean we are identical...
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...Lacey Smith January 20, 2015 CJ 233: Forensic Psychology Professor Araujo Unit 9 Final Project I have a client in which has been committed to the psychiatric facility for a restoration of competency. This was after the judge in his case determined that he was not competent enough to stand trial and was sentenced to the psychiatric facility for treatment. The client has been here at the facility for three months now and the judge has ordered for a new competency evaluation to be completed. In order to complete the evaluation I need to know exactly why my client has been brought here. I understand that he was on trial for murder but I need to know more about the case so I need to read his file because I feel as though I should familiarize myself with the entire case. According to the police report the incident occurred on February the fourth of last year. The police officers were responding to a reported shooting at the home of John and Jane Wilson. The police officers arrived to the scene they found the body of John Wilson leaning against the house on the steps that enter into the kitchen. The police also found Jane Wilson lying with her head in her husband’s lap. The bodies were covered in blood and there were not any pulses on either of the bodies. The witnesses who had discovered the bodies of the Wilson’s were family friends in which upon their arrival to the Wilson home they were meet by the Wilson’s son Edward who came out of the house and told them to leave because...
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...When is it right to take a stand? Many people have asked this question a lot over the last few decades, when are we supposed to take a stand? When is it right to get up and fight back? To understand this, we got to learn about the importance of making our own decisions and how it can affect our whole life. Although it is true that it is important for people to make their own choices in life. People are right to take a stand whenever they feel like they are ready to make a decision. In the text “Words Do Not Pay” by Chief Joseph it said, “I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who have no right to talk. Too many misrepresentations...
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...During the time of the Vietnam War and Nixon administration the society was at a state of anger and unrest. John Lennon took a stand against the government and society by writing music and performing physical acts of protest. Immediately, he was faced with a deportation scandal, and many people were rallying for change on his behalf. His long-term impact is shown even to this day, through his song “Imagine” and other political songs that were screaming for someone to take a stand. As many already know, John Lennon was part of the ever-so popular group, the Beatles. During the time he spent with the group, his “voice” and his stance on the world was not shown much, as it was overpowered by Paul McCartney’s drippy and love-like lyrics. His...
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...others not so much. Leadership is something not everyone has, but some people want. Some people tend to follow instead of lead others. Leadership is taking a role and standing up for something or someone when no one else will. Taking up for someone when he/she is being bullied, taking the lead role around school, and leading others on the right path; not the wrong one are great characteristics of leadership. Taking up for someone when he/she is being bullied definitely defines this person as a leader in some people’s eyes. People look at leadership and think of the president or high officials. When others look at leadership, they see all the little details like taking up for someone when he/she is being bullied. In today’s society, the number one cause for suicide is bullying and when someone decides to be a leader and stand up is when he/she has the role of leadership. Standing for someone that is being bullied is a characteristic not everyone has because some people do not care and others are afraid to take a stand. Taking the lead role at your school or anywhere else is a prime example of leadership. Taking a lead on a school project, helping out at the school, or just cleaning up are all great examples of leadership. Taking the lead role is a characteristic not everyone has because some people just do not know how to. Taking the lead does not mean being bossy or mean to others; it means being considerate and compassionate towards other people. Leading others on the right...
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