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Agency Background Information The State of Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) received the name after many years of evolving through various roles and responsibilities of public health. In 1877 a bill was signed into law that created a State Board of Health to assist in organizing and improving the current health concerns during that time (“TDH”, 2016). In the 1800s, Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis and many smaller towns experienced life-threatening diseases that caused death and economic…

severe abdominal pain was admitted to a ward for observation and treatment. I will discuss the following three pieces of legislation as relevant to her care: The Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (HPCAA), The Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994 - Consumer Code of Rights (reviewed 2009) (the Code) and The Health and Information Privacy Code 1994 (HIPA). I will outline how the nurse acted in accordance with the Code of Ethics in regard to the principles of beneficence,…

At the end of the Civil War of 1865, a body was organized to oversee the likely of the newly mass of freedmen under the Congressional Act passed establishing the Bureau for Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. The Freedmen’s Bureau was directed with the task of assisting the newly emancipated people as best as they could by providing care, land, labour, education, integration of the freedmen into American society with the assurance of a sense of protection from the Southern Whites. Oliver…

Cohan v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Issue Gregory Cohan, the plaintiff, petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals to review the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals regarding how he treated the loan to his partner on his income taxes and the disallowance of his travel expenses associated with his theater business. Facts Gregory Cohan, the taxpayer, was a theatrical manager and producer who was partner with Harris. The earnings were divided amongst the family, each child receiving a quarter…

according to population, each area is different, and those differences must be considered. Commissioners, along with all department heads, should attend educational sessions to fully understand the complexities of deciding these fundamental issues and can be tracked through attendance records. Thirdly, the challenge of providing the services within the budget constraints is the objective. Again, Commissioner education is important, as well as the interaction with their constituents. A…

the Business Planning Retreat the Commission members will be listen to department presentations and will be able to interact with key staff members, ask questions and provide input. This portion of the budget process will be vital in helping the Commissioners to set their priorities for budget concentration moving forwards. The next step will be to develop a Business Plan from the Strategic Plan. The Business Plan will include action items, success indicators based on operations and identify…

At some point in one’s life, there comes a time when one must realize things will never go back to the way they used to be and some things can’t be fixed. Chinua Achebe explores this theme in his book, Things Fall Apart. Things Fall Apart is set in a village in Africa called Umuofia right before Europeans arrived. The book focuses on the life of a man named Okonkwo and his tragic downfall brought by colonization. The village of Umuofia also suffers a tragic downfall due to colonization even…

 Head of divisional Council: It was the highest tier of basic democracies. It was a new experiment in the field of local government as before the advent of basic democracies, local government institutes in Pakistan and undivided India didn’t go beyond the district level. The jurisdiction of a divisional council coincides with the division. Constitution: The divisional council constituted of official and unofficial members. One half was official and the other was consisted of unofficial. The…

Take Back the Land by Max Rameau recalls the formation, evolution, and demise of the Take Back the Land campaign organized by housing activists in Miami, Florida. The main goal of the campaign was to establish the idea that people within a given community should own the land in it. They tried to achieve this by creating their own shantytown called Umoja Village on a vacant lot that they legally occupied under the Pottinger Settlement, which states “anyone who is homeless and on government…

and the internal corruption of the Qing Dynasty, which could not accomplish the simplest governmental task of protecting its own citizens. Whereas the corrupt, incompetent Qing government became a victim of imperialism, certain characters like Commissioner Lin, or Lin Zexu, stood up against the Western encroachment and thereby sewed the seeds of modernization for China, even at the cost of two Opium Wars. Thus when Sun Yat-Sen eradicated the Qing Dynasty through his Xinhai Revolution in 1912,…