...issue over the last century in today’s service environment of helping professionals. I reviewed several articles where the main theme is; we live in a world of systems that allow for injustice and oppression. The Professional Counselor’s work deals with many of the symptoms that permit for this injustice and oppression. The articles had similar recurring traits that are stressed as important practices that need to be adopted by Professionals in the helping field to increase awareness of social justice and implement actions for change in a socially unjust society. I will explain the four main attributes: knowledge, awareness, research and advocacy and explain how education and focus in each area will contribute to the social justice inequities in the communities we practice. If professional counselors want to promote social justice, to be effective, there has to be a movement to take action on the burdensome stigmatisms and unfortunate inequities that human beings bring to professionals about the communities they live in. Social justice and the counseling profession have roots that goes back to the 1900’s. It has always been understood from a social work point of view that problems such as depression, anxiety, and abuse often derive from economic and environmental issues. In order to help a client over come their issues it is necessary to address the policies and services available to them in the community they live in. Over the years, the...
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...Community First Medical Center Community First Medical Center prides itself as being an extraordinary community hospital, developing strong relationships within the community. Community First is dedicated in providing exemplary service, accessible emergency and acute care to our patients. Our compassionate commitment to maintaining healthier lives within our community thru continued education that helps us to provide excellent quality of care. Community First is committed to encouraging and facilitating ethical behavior in all its activities. Community First plays a devoted role within the community as a health care provider and an employer and is devoted to providing excellent quality medical care. Each employee must exercise the highest degree of integrity, ethics, and objectivity in their daily actions and activities by upholding the following codes: Each employee of Community First Medical Center shall: I. Uphold the Code of Ethics and mission of the Community First Medical Center; II. Exhibit fairness and treat all individuals equally III. Conduct themselves during professional activities with honesty, integrity, respect, fairness and good faith IV. Comply with all federal, state and local laws and regulations pertaining to healthcare; V. Provide exemplary service and promote wellness through continued commitment to the community; VI. Demonstrate zero tolerance for any abuse of power that compromises patients or others served; VII. Maintain competence...
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...Windshield Survey Assessment Paper Windshield Survey Assessment Paper Physical The city of Victorville began in 1962 and started off with a population of 8,000 that has grown to be a population of 121,000, and continues to grow (92392 Zip Code Population and Races, n.d.). The condition of the houses appear to be in mint condition with the exception of some homes in the area of El Evado and Pacoima that have lawns that are dead and full of weeds. The paint on these homes are chipped and not well kept. There are many apartments in Victorville that appear to look old on the outside, but each apartment building has been renovated to look more twenty first century. There aren't many abandoned houses in the city of Victorville but there abandoned vehicles in front of houses that have oxidized paint and dust covering them. The houses in the neighborhoods are very similar in their layout, the only difference each house has is the color of the paint on outside of the house. Some residents have also added on additions to their homes such as extra rooms or in ground pools, which have raised the equity in these homes. There is one abandoned building that stands out in Victorville and that is because it is in a shopping center that has flourishing businesses within that same parking lot that use to be an Albertsons. This building has been empty for a couple years and is located on Bear Valley and Amargosa. There is a large number of stray dogs in Victorville due to the faulty wooden...
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...Business Code of Ethics Evaluation Code of ethics represents the principles and protocol of which a company operates. The reason for the code of ethics is to set a standard for employees and stakeholders to govern by. In this paper this writer will evaluate the code of ethics Catholic Health Services uses. How the code of ethics is used for employees, management, and board of directors will be discussed. Why the code of ethics is used, how it is used, and when it is used will be examined. This writer will modify if need be, how to modify the code of ethics and implement the change, employees reaction to the change, the effect the code has on the organization will be outlined. This writer will summarize the results of inquiry into the code of ethics of the organization Every organization operates by an ethical system. Catholic Health Services is an organization of the Archdiocese of Miami and the largest post acute provider in the southeast United States. Catholic Health Services provides a full continuum of health care and social services to the southeast Florida community. This association serves about 6,000 people daily with more than 7,500 new patients per year and operates 30 facilities in Broward and Miami-Dade counties (CHS, 2011). CHS mission statement is “To provide health care and services to those in need, to minimize human suffering, to assist people to wholeness , and to nurture an awareness of their relationship with God” (Catholic Health Services, 2011...
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...Code of Ethics for Nurses in Australia Developed under the auspices of Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council, Australian College of Nursing, Australian Nursing Federation Introduction This Code of Ethics for Nurses in Australia has been developed for the nursing profession in Australia. It is relevant to all nurses at all levels and areas of practice including those encompassing clinical, management,education and research 1 domains. This Code is framed by the principles and standards set forth in the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the World Health Organization’s Constitution and publication series entitled Health and Human Rights; and the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report 2 2004: Cultural liberty in today’s diverse world. In considering this Code and its companion, the Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses in Australia, it should be borne in mind that they are designed for multiple audiences: nurses; nursing students; people requiring or receiving nursing care; the community generally; employers of nurses; nursing regulatory authorities; and consumer protection agencies. It is also noteworthy that the concepts of ‘ethics’ and ‘morality’ are substantially the same and have been used interchangeably throughout this Code. This Code outlines the nursing profession’s commitment to respect, promote, protect...
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...Care: Improving overall health status Equality in Access to health services is one of the forty two topic areas in Healthy People 2020 that caught my view as one of the objectives to have the highest importance in achieving a national goal of healthy Americans in the future. But what does access to health care actually means? According Gulliford et al (2002), facilitating access to health is concerned with helping people to command appropriate health care resources in order to preserve or improve their health status but unfortunately gaining access to healthcare depends on some factors such as financial, organizational and social or cultural barriers that permits or limit the said utilization of services. Therefore having much available health services is not a factor in itself to improve the quality of healthcare but the utilization of such services by all of the people which will depend on affordability and general accessibility of the service. According to Healthy People 2020 (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2012), it is important to have access to quality health care service in order to achieve equity in health and eventually improve the general health status of all Americans. This I think is one of the most important move that the state should make in order to make the vision of having healthy Americans, including all migrants, ethnic and minority groups, by the year 2020. Though free service is not always the key to have access to quality healthcare the state...
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...individual is still welcome at Glorified Healing Behavioral Health Clinic because we are a nonprofit organization and we do not turn any individual away who is seeking help, regardless if the individual cannot pay or does not have insurance. We offer a hotline for individuals who are suicidal. The individuals will be able to call and talk to a professional counselor. He or she will let the individual know what their options are and where the individual can go and get help. The counselor will make sure the individual knows that he/she is not alone and it is ok if that individual does not have any money to pay or has insurance to pay for the services that the Glorified Healing Behavioral Health Clinic offers. “Glorified Healing Behavioral Health Clinic’s mission is dedicated to providing understanding and complete behavioral healthcare services for teens...
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...individual is still welcome at Glorified Healing Behavioral Health Clinic because we are a nonprofit organization and we do not turn any individual away who is seeking help, regardless if the individual cannot pay or does not have insurance. We offer a hotline for individuals who are suicidal. The individuals will be able to call and talk to a professional counselor. He or she will let the individual know what their options are and where the individual can go and get help. The counselor will make sure the individual knows that he/she is not alone and it is ok if that individual does not have any money to pay or has insurance to pay for the services that the Glorified Healing Behavioral Health Clinic offers. “Glorified Healing Behavioral Health Clinic’s mission is dedicated to providing understanding and complete behavioral healthcare services for teens...
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...HSM 230: Ethical Issues in Human Services Management Week 9: Final Project: Building an Ethical Organization part 2 Title: Job Placement Program By Penelope Foretich August 20, 2015 Introduction Statement Here in the city of Commerce, TX, there is a rising problem that has to deal with the economic crisis of the town. The town has approximately 9,000 residents in it, but only a handful of employment opportunities for these residents to find work. The highest employer in town is the Texas A and M University with an average of 900 employees. However, once school is out, their job opportunities for the town drop drastically. Many employers lose their staff, since most are from the University. As a result, it has possibly added to the cause of the poverty rate increase in the town. As a Human Service Advocate and a resident of the town itself, I propose a Job Placement program to bring the economy of the town back up. The people of Commerce need a way to revive the town and bring the economy of their residents back up and out of poverty. I believe creating a job placement program for the residents could help in solving the issue of the drop rate in available jobs in Commerce. This is a growing problem and there are many that need help with finding jobs. What will also help is providing the right job training for those part of the program. Description of the Organization The type of organization that I will be to be Director of is a non-profit Job placement program through...
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...Windshield Survey for Zip Code 77004 Eugene Harris NUR/405 Healthy Communities: Theory And Practice November 28th, 2011 Beth Meadows Community health nursing has become a focal point in healthcare since the 1960s-70s when the civil right movement shifted the goal from a charitable concept to a political commitment in order to rectify racial injustices of the past (Stanhope and Lancaster, 2008). Many programs came about with the goal of addressing inequalities in the delivery of healthcare based upon social-economical status. Nurse practitioners then became an important factor in the delivery of healthcare, thereby affecting services offered in community health clinics which improved local accessibility to healthcare. (Stanhope and Lancaster, 2008). Many dynamic changes occurred since then with nurses making important contributions in disease prevention and health promotion in the community which countered the escalating costs of acute hospital care. The definition of a community, in simplicity, is a group of people who live in the same area, or the area in which they live. Unfortunately, this definition does not completely explain what a community is. A community would be individuals who share the same space and interact with each other either directly or indirectly via mechanisms or environment. A community is more than a cluster of individuals, it also will be constructed of families and aggregates (persons with many commonalities) that are interdependent or whose...
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...Windshield survey is the process of walking/driving around a community to abreast with firsthand information or the characteristics of the population and infrastructure as well as well as potential health risks of the population in a defined area. Stanhope and Landcaster (2013) explained windshield survey as “equivalent of a community head-to-toe assessment” (p.220). In this study, I drove through this community understudy three times, days and night, because of its’ large area size. The following were the findings on January 17-20th, 2017. Element of community Observation and findings of the community in the zip code 32218 Boundaries and geographical layout The zip code 32218 is a Florida Jacksonville postal code. The size of this zip...
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...volunteers whose target population are homeless youth ranging in age between twelve and eighteen; with the exception of some clients which continue in the program until the age of twenty-one. The exception is made either when particular clients require further mentoring to provide them with the skills required by law to live independently and also for the aging out of foster care population. The services Royalty House provides to the homeless youth population are 24 hour emergency shelter, transitional housing, residential substance abuse treatment for clients and their families, parenting classes, shelter for teen parents and their children, anger management classes, educational programs to obtain a GED, workshops to learn a trade, classes to earn a degree, basic behavioral health services, and referral services for assistance not provided by this organization. Services and referrals are extended to those in the community who call in for help. Royalty House Mission Statement: To improve the quality of life of homeless teens and their families by providing services, community education and involvement, advocating the needs and rights of the homeless teen population and coalescing with other advocating...
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...Is Open Source? Technically, “open source” means software that issupplied with the original code in which it was written allowing others to view, modify, adapt, and improve this code. This can include software that cannot be redistributed without explicit permission (and often a payment) to the software owner. Most people now define “open source” more narrowly to as software with the following further characteristics: • It is protected by copyright, but not patents. • It has a “copy-left” license (GNU license or similar), which states that it can be redistributed for no charge, but the source code and modifications must be licensed out under the same terms that it was licensed in. Sample licenses are available at http://www.opensource.org. Please note, that it is acceptable to sell commercial software in a bundle with this “open source” software. Open source software is not the same as “shareware” or “freeware” which often does not come with source code and has zero cost as its defining characteristic. Open source software, may or may not be zero cost. The benefit of open source software is that when people are allowed to read, distribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves and gets better. Open Source in Brief In practice, a typical open-source project uses a web or other internet site as the repository for the source code, documentation, discussions, design documents, bug and issue lists, and other artifacts associated...
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...Project: Operations Description of NCR Corporation Introduction NCR Corporation is a global technology company leading how the world connects, interacts and transacts with business. NCR’s assisted- and self-service solutions and comprehensive support services address the needs of retail, financial, travel, healthcare, hospitality, entertainment, gaming and public sector organizations in more than 100 countries. NCR has a rich history providing high-quality, innovative solutions that meet customers’ needs in an ever-changing market-place for 125 years. But a great company is more than the product it sells. I believe a great company is focused on long-term and sustainable growth, placing just as much emphasis on growing its product line as it does on growing its employees and the communities it serves.NCR is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia. It is a place where people want to come to work because they are continuously invigorated by new ideas and are engaged in improving how to do business. It is a place that recognizes its profound responsibility to the communities where it does business, striving to help those communities thrive by supporting local institutions and employing people who make volunteer work a priority. It is an organization that sees environmental stewardship not as the latest new trend, but as a critical issue in sustaining the future- ensuring our natural resources are protected and preserved. NCR expecting business partners throughout their supply...
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...adhere to regulatory compliance can impact a litigation process, which in the case of Stevens vs, Hickman Community Hospital was prominent when the Tennessee Court of Appeals dismissed the case based on failure to comply with Tennessee’s Medical Malpractice Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. This paper will include an IRAC Brief that will explain the case in detail followed by a brief explanation of governmental principles of regulatory compliance requirements, a brief explanation of methods for managing the legal risks that arise from regulatory compliance issues, and how this case can be applied within a business managerial setting. IRAC Brief Christine Stevens a Tennessee woman filed a malpractice lawsuit against Hickman Community Hospital, the emergency room services and physicians who cared for her husband Mark Stevens, which subsequently resulted in his demise. The case however is being challenged as a result of failing to comply with regulatory requirements set forth in the Tennessee Medical Malpractice Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Case In accordance with the Tennessee Medical Malpractice Act, on April 11, 2011, counsel for Mrs. Christine Stevens the spouse of Steven Stevens, formally notified Hickman Community Hospital and Dr. Whitaker of the impending malpractice allegations in their care and treatment of Mark Stevens...
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