ROLE OF REGULATORY BODIES INTRODUCTION Health Professionals such as nurses doctors‚ Pharmacist and many others are regulated and licensed by regulatory bodies as required by provincial legislation. All nurses are required to be licensed to practice with their designated provincial nursing regulatory body. Legal responsibility in nursing practice is becoming of greater importance as each year passes. In order to provide safe and competent nursing care an understanding of legal boundaries is very
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Alternative Sentencing We need to realize that the current approach to our penal system is failing terribly. Take a group of people‚ take away all of their possessions and privacy‚ expose them to violence‚ overcrowded cell blocks‚ and the result is a group of people intent on getting even with society rather than contributing to it. It is very expensive to house prisoners. There are several other options to deal with nonviolent offenders. Alternative sentencing is finding other ways to deal
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A Critical Regulatory issue in Health Care Debon Carter HCS 430 May 4‚ 2015 Lori Lewellen A Critical Regulatory Issue in Health Care The focus of this paper will address issues involving health care law and the individual lives it can effect. There are many critical regulatory issues in health care. However for the purpose of this paper‚ the critical regulatory health care issue chosen will be in the area of abuse in the long term care setting. This paper will provide an analysis that explains
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Mandatory Minimum Sentencing in the American Justice System has long been argued by both Lawmakers and the public. We will go over some of the history of mandatory minimum sentences as well as the many pros and cons to these types of sentences. Some examples of pros and cons are the overall effect on public safety‚ the effect on the offenders‚ the cost to taxpayers‚ the lack of discretion for Judge’s‚ and whether the law should be repealed. The history of Mandatory Minimum sentencing laws date back
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Federal Tort Acts of 1946 Jenna Smith CJA 520 Professor Mark Holley July 30‚ 2011 Introduction In the United States today if you as an officer put either you or your department in a liability‚ for any type of act that is not warranted and handled in a professional manner you are opening yourself for a number of different actions which could hurt both you‚ your department as well as causing you to loss everything that you own‚ just because you decided to not following proper protocals which
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Regulatory Paper By Jane McElveen Ms. Craine HCA/210 12/7/12 Cited page: American College of Emergency Agency. Website www. Acep.org The law of EMTALA (1986) is where a patient has to follow the rules of the program so that they can get the medical
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major regulatory bodies. They are: 1. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The IRS was established in 1913. Its purpose is to administer and enforce the internal revenue laws. Its stated mission is to provide America’s taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and by applying the tax law with integrity and fairness to all. (Internal Revenue Service‚ 2008) 2. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Securities and Exchange Act of 1934
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is convicted of a crime by a guilty plea‚ plea bargain‚ or jury verdict the sentencing takes place. A sentence is a decree of punishment. This punishment can be fines‚ incarceration in jain for short term and in prison for longer term‚ probation‚ payment of restitution to crime victim‚ community service or drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Not only will the severity of the crime determine the punishment but the sentencing judge usually will consider the defendants criminal history or lack thereof;
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Racial Disparity in Sentencing Donna Black CJA423 October 18‚ 2010 Shomari L. Gilford Racial Disparity in Sentencing Racial disparity in sentencing continues to be a long time culmination in the criminal justice system. The disparity in criminal sentencing is seen when individuals who commit similar or the same criminal act results in acquiring different sentences upon conviction (Jones-Brown‚ 2002). The paper will take a look at racial disparity in sentencing today‚ do an examination of
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Regulatory Bodies By Jason Eastridge University of Phoenix XACC/280 Daneene Barton January 28‚ 2012 There are many major regulatory bodies in the financial industry. I found there to be about nine major bodies. First you have the FDIC‚ Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation‚ which insures al major banks deposits. The FDIC also handles and approves any bank mergers and audits. The FED‚ Federal Reserve System‚ basically is the manager of the money supply to banks and handles some banking regulations
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