Current Issues in Quality and Safety Current Issues in Quality and Safety The safety of medication administration has become a universal issue and crucial for one ’s wellbeing. The majority of hospitalized patients are treated with medications (Agyemang & While‚ 2010). The medical treatment of patients has a direct effect on the patient ’s quality of life. Srinivasan declared "patients have a right to know they are receiving safe care" (as cited by Zhani‚ 2012‚ p. 1). The purpose of
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Current Ethical Issues Paper XMGT/216 January 26‚ 2014 Current Ethical Issues Paper Within this paper you will read about the organization of Huffman Trucking Company. This includes a description of the company on the ethical organization profile. Also within this paper you’ll read about the explanation of the current moral and ethical issues that Huffman Trucking Company will face. Huffman Trucking Company has been around since 1936. Huffman’s was the carrier in the World War II for the
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The Zoning Ordinance currently in force in Quezon City is already outdated having been enacted more than nineteen years ago when the city’s population was only 1.17 M and development in certain areas may be described either sluggish or just starting. Since then‚ the population have risen to almost two million and developments significantly intensified and expanded. Despite the many changes that have transpired - physically‚ socio-economically and politically‚ the land use plan has not changed
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auditors are employed by organizations to perform the internal auditing activity. Internal auditors are employed by companies to do both financial and operational auditing. Their role in auditing has increased dramatically in the past two decades‚ primarily because of the increased size and complexity of many corporations. Because internal auditors spend all of their time with one company‚ their knowledge about the company’s operations and internal controls is much greater than the external auditors’
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duties of a police officer include serving the community; safe-guarding lives and property; protecting the innocent; keeping the peace; and ensuring the rights of all to liberty‚ equality and justice. (As cited in Banks‚ 2009‚ p.31) Ethical standards based on Constitutional principles are absolute because police officers take this oath to uphold them. The police in the United States are entrusted with enormous power. With such power and immediate capability to deprive a citizen of their liberties‚ law
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Hooters Current Ethical Issue Over the years the national chain restaurant Hooters has had lawsuits brought against them for discrimination based on gender. Currently‚ the issue is weight discrimination. Not just one lawsuit‚ but two‚ and maybe three lawsuits may be filed. The waitresses claim that they lost their jobs because they weighed too much. They were put on a 30-day weight probation and offered gym memberships. The ethical issue here is the fact the company practices such discrimination
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Issue Management: Risk Management Unlike traditional risk management tools‚ which are usually based around tangible and quantifiable issues‚ scenario thinking encourages executives to step into the unknown and imagine a range of possible futures. - Doug Randall and Chris Ertel Managing risk is central to many corporate strategies. Reputations that take decades to build can be ruined in a matter of hours through incidents such as environmental accidents. “The definition
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Title New strategies for FMCG companies Author Source References sreekanth reddy‚ MBA II Mktg Forthright 1. Marketing Management‚ Phillip Kotler 2. site.securities.com 3. FT.com 4. The Economist 5. www.wikipedia.org Document Type Secondary Analysis Subject Date Abstract The FMCG sector is undergoing a slow but definite change towards higher productivity gains in spite of decreasing retail prices. In this scenario it is important for the companies to innovate‚ use economies of scale and
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The idea of Pacific Coffee was inspired by the coffee culture of Seattle‚ where coffeehouses were community hubs‚ serving great Italian espresso based coffee in generous western culture sizes‚ with informality and a friendly attitude. Pacific Coffee is one of the leading coffee chains in Hong Kong‚ with retail outlets in Hong Kong‚ China and Singapore. Since opening its first outlet in 1992‚ the chain has played an instrumental role in bringing a coffee drinking culture to Hong Kong.With comfortable
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The challenges facing administration Motor Insurance management and operational risk in Kenyan Insurance Company Presented by Moses Mbwika- 11-909 Dr. Peter Ngure Paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the course BUS 611: Business Research Methods Daystar University Nairobi‚ Kenya 29th April 2012 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background of the study Although the exact date of birth of the insurance industry in East Africa is not known‚ there is evidence that the first marine
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