employer’s duty to ensure safety of employees. Thus‚ the employer is liable for prosecution. Question 2: The employer could sue Fred for breaching the duty of care. Fred had breached safety procedures despite being warned about finger damage and that there were safety guards‚ Perspex / plastic shields with two releasable catches‚ to prevent these injuries. Breaching the safety procedures would have costed the company monetarily due to having to legally compensate for medical care for the injury
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Long-Term Care Facility Study Team B HCS/437 January 19‚ 2014 Rick Johnson Long-Term Care Facility Study La Costa Glen Carlsbad La Costa Glen is a retirement community that is also a continuing life community. Seniors can join the community as active adults and live independently knowing that if and when the time comes where they may need further assistance of even skilled nursing care they can remain in the same community. It is comforting to know that you can remain with friends close by‚ able
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of Phoenix Material Week One Health Care Financial Terms Worksheet Understanding health care financial terms is a prerequisite for both academic and professional success. This assignment is intended to ensure you understand some of the basic terms used in this course. Complete the worksheet below according to the following guidelines: In the space provided‚ write each term’s definition as used in health care management. You must define the term in your own words. In the space provided
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Explain what is meant by a balanced approach to risk management. A risk is the possibility of a hazard’s potential being realised. A balanced approach to risk management is basically weighing up the benefits against the chances of harm and the severity of such harm. In schools risk assessments are necessary to note any hazards which could cause harm and are therefore a potential risk. Risk assessments need to be carried out in a way which minimises the risk but is also practical. There is a need
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The Daily Duties of a Probation Officer Reggie Haag Everest University Have you ever wondered what the daily duties of a Probation Officer are? Well I am going to tell you what some of them are in this paper. But‚ first let me give you a brief history on what made me pick this topic. When I was 20 years old I got into a little bit of legal trouble and was put on probation for two years. When that happened I thought that my life was over. But‚ my probation officer told me that as
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The duty to warn is a concept of law that is a required disclosure of information to an intended victim when a patient threatens to harm an individually identifiable person or persons and that the psychiatrist or other mental health provider believes that the patient is likely to actually harm the person. The duty to warn is if some health provider heard the patient that they are dealing with wanting threat someone‚ the provider must disclose information to the patient that he or she may cause danger
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This paper will describe the Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) which is affiliated with Carson Tahoe Hospital (CTH). Long Term Acute Care hospitals were essentially non-existent in 1979. Now‚ there are over 450 facilities nationwide that are licensed as LTACS (McDaniel‚ n.d.). The discharge plan I will be describing is for a 66-yr-old female who was admitted to (CTH) for revision of a chronic enterocutaneous fistula which was draining from her abdomen through a very large open wound. This fistula
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As a student nursing performing clinicals in both short-term and long-term care facilities‚ I have noticed a few differences among the two. To begin with‚ long term care does not have “patients”‚ they have “residents”. In long-term care facilities they have residents who live there‚ where as acute care has “patients” because they only stay for a short period of time. In fact‚ discharge planning starts upon admission when entering in a hospital‚ especially for the elderly because the longer the elderly
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perhaps the central‚ characteristic of the judicial development of tort law.” (Jonathan Morgan ‘Policy reasoning in tort law: the courts‚ the Law Commission and the critics’ (2009) 125 LQR 215) To what extent have judicial concerns about public policy restricted the circumstances in which a duty of care can be owed? Are there cases of which it might be said that such restrictions have unnecessarily disenfranchised claimants? Discuss with reference to case law and academic commentary. The tort
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adopted by the INC between 1917 and 1919.[3] The demands articulated in these resolutions included granting to Indians the rights to equality before law‚ free speech‚ trial by juries composed at least half of Indian members‚ political power‚ and equal terms for bearing arms as British citizens.[4] The experiences of the First World War‚ the unsatisfactory Montague-Chelmsford reforms of 1919‚ and the rise to prominence of M. K. Gandhi in the Indian independence movement marked a change in the attitude
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