This assessment focuses on the issue of Hotel Laeta’s corporate social responsibility and its duty of care towards the Indigenous Australian people. Background Aboriginals Australians are technically the first people who lived in Australia. Australian Aboriginals were basically the hunters who used to eat the animals they caught and were also considered as gatherers of plants which could be eaten. Some of these groups then settled on the islands and are now called as Torres Strait Islander People
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this end, the common law duty of care is a provision that was designed to hold employers liable for psychiatric related illness that employees suffer and more specifically illness arising because employees are made to work under stressful conditions. This paper is aimed to critically evaluate the common law duty of care and its effectiveness with respect to psychiatric related illness as a result of working under stressful condition. The establishment of the common law of duty towards workers has enhanced
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Week#7 MSAC 601 Legal and Ethical Duties of Care Due: Monday, April 20th, 2014 CPMR Abstract This paper addresses the duty of care, duty of loyalty, and ethics of care issues that arise in the workplace. It outlines the nature and scope of care that employers are ethically obligated to give their employees. Characteristics of duty, and how it can be implemented are provided, along with how to deal with issues that arise. Duty of care is the principle that directors and officers of
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negligence been demonstrated? Rule: Negligence requires that a duty was owed, that the duty was breached, and that the breach was the actual and proximate cause of damage. Analysis: Greenbrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center owed a duty of care to Bell which was to get her to a hospital. Greenbrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center breeched their duty of care by not following through with the doctors’ orders. The breech of this duty caused injury to Bell which was death. Greenbrier Nursing Center
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NEGLIGENCE Tort Law is a field that encompasses material of considerable breadth and diversity and whose existence, as a reflected in individual actions seeking civil redress for injuries nor arising out of contractual relations can be traced can be traced back to primitive societies. (White, 2003 p.23) A ‘tort’ is a Norman word for a ‘wrong’ but ‘torts’ have typically been distinguished from crimes and from ‘wrongs’ identified with contractual relations. Tort Law is concerned with civil
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4222-304 Duty of care in my job role means I take on the legal responsibilities to safeguard the wellbeing and welfare of clients under my care. This means that I must watch out for potential risks or hazards, where possible. Every client should be supported to live in the project free from prejudice, and safe from abuse whether this be mental, physical, financial or sexual. My responsibilities under the duty of care are to ensure I do everything within my job role to ensure this happens. The
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head: LAW AND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION Assignment #1 Jennifer Smith HSA 515 Dr. Mezu October 27, 2013 Justify your position about the importance of the physician-patient and hospital-patient relationships. The doctor–patient relationship has been and remains a keystone of care: the medium in which data are gathered, diagnoses and plans are made, compliance is accomplished, and healing, patient activation, and support are provided. To managed care organizations, its importance
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The roots of hospice care began in the 1960s as a benevolent movement to provide dying patients more time with their families in a dignified manner. The hospice industry is now a fourteen-billion-dollar industry, run primarily by for profit industries. Hospice facilities play a crucial role in delivering palliative services to patients and their families. In the United States, about half of all deaths happen in a hospice program. When a patient is certified by their primary care physician and a hospice
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of care. The medium will provide data that is gathered for the society. The data is diagnoses and plans are made. The compliance will be accomplished, and healing, patient activation, and support are provided. It will manage care organizations. The importance rests also on market savvy: satisfaction with the doctor patient relationship is a critical factor in people's decisions to join and stay with a specific company. The quick penetration of managed care into the health care market
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