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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organization such as failure to report, failure to follow orders, performing duties in a careless manner and at times carrying on a job that is not part of a scope of practice. In today’s hospital and skilled nursing facilities, Certified Nursing Assistant is in an environment that is high in demand by Registered Nurses and Physicians to monitor the conditions of the patient. To assure assistance to perform their duties as it should in their scope of practice. Most commons ? that categorizes to a
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contributory negligence 2. voluntary assumption of risk. Contributory negligence Contributory negligence occurs when a plaintiff fails to meet the standard of care required of them for their own protection—this being a contributory cause, with the defendant’s conduct, of the plaintiff’s injury. Contributory negligence is really the plaintiff’s failure to avoid harm caused by the defendant’s conduct (for example
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BTEC CENTER OF HFUT SCHEME OF WORK |Program |Business in Management and Business in Accounting Services | |Unit No |5 | |Unit Title |Aspects of Contract and Negligence for Business | |Name of Tutor |Zhang Hongsheng
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new, or regular.1 GENERAL RULE ON PAY AND BENEFITS DURING LEAVE Employers must give employees time off from work for a variety of reasons (such as for jury duty and workers' comp injuries). Besides these mandatory leaves, many employers provide other, optional leaves (such as vacation, sick, and holiday leave). See Memo 2800 Employer's Duty to Provide Leave & Time Off. Note: If employees are entitled to take leave, employers generally must reinstate employees returning from leave to their prior
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1. 1. Explain whether Jake’s actions are in or out of “his scope of employment.” 2. Scope of employment is the activities of an employee that are in futhermore of duties that are owed to an employer an where the employer is, could be, excising some control, directly or indirectly, over the activities of the employee (Law Dictionary 2010). The scope of employment including matter of personal convenience and comfort
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relating to the health, safety and security of individuals in a health and social care setting Introduction Within this essay I am going to be describing the roles and responsibilities relating to the health, safety and security of individuals in a health and social setting. I will be using the health and social care setting in a nursery to help describe what roles there are within the workplace and what their duties are. And then I will be discussing a range of other scenarios that other people’s
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three six-year-old triplets. The issue of this case asked, “Did Wellpoint violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by denying a promotion to Chadwick based on a sex-based stereotype that a mother with young children would neglect her work duties in favor of her parental obligation?” The court held for the plaintiff, Laurie Chadwick. The court reasoned that even though Title VII does not prohibit discrimination based on the responsibilities of a caregiver, this case involved stereotyping
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FORMS OF TORTIUOS LIABILITY. 12 Describe the nature of general tortuous liability comparing and contrasting to contractual liability 12 Explain the liability applicable to an occupier of premises in the given scenario 13 Discuss the nature of employer’s liability with reference to vicarious liability and health and safety implications taking Mr. Bobs Company as an example 13 Distinguish strict liability from general tortuous liability in the given scenario. 14 ELEMENTS OF THE TORT OF NEGLIGENCE
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but, nurse negligence is far more common than people think. Nurses are often responsible for filling out information on a patients chart, administering a patient’s medicine, taking vital signs and recording them accurately. Clearly, there are many duties that a nurse must perform, and there is no room for negligence. Nurses carry on many responsibilities and can be liable for any malpractice. Nurses are the “backbone” to the doctor, and are there for a patient when the doctor cannot be there (Nurse
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