Marijuana Policy Project

As we look at the number and the decline of inner cities productivity, specifically speaking in Chicago, you can’t help but ask the question how can these racialized disparities, that have been grandfathered into policies, procedures and implementation be addressed, or at least a formulation of procedure that can level the playing field that reflects the evolutionary legal framework to meet the diverse economic resource development needs of many different cultures and ethnicities, as well as the…

Many policy and protocols are initiated with evidence based practice and is significant when implementing a new or revision of policies. Identification of a problem is key to the process of policy making and is the first step to implementing or changing of a policy (Finkelman & Kenner, 2013). The following step is to learn more about the problem that needs to be addressed. This is done…

The Influence of Politics on Health Care Regulations, Laws and Policies Politics is always a major influence in any society and affects its social economic activities that include health. As mentioned, all aspects relating to laws in health care move through the policy formulation process where they transform from being a mere proposal to an act that is enacted under the influence of lawmakers or elected officials or groups. When making laws, politics plays a major role where the political…

Stakeholders holders in this policy include residents of Texas, physicians, APRNs, Insurance companies, State and federal health agencies, and professional organization like ANA( American Nurses Association, Coalition for Nurses in Advanced Practice (CNAP), Texas Nurse Practitioner’s Association (TNP). First of all, APRN has to bring the practice problem to the steering committee of Texas region ANA committee. APRN can involve in this committee by requesting to testify and the result of this…

Security Policy A workstation policy provides standards for access to information inside the facility in a controlled manner, respecting guidelines set by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines to properly ensure workstation security within healthcare companies. Workstation security policy ensures the security of information on the workstation and information accessed by the workstation. Additionally, this policy…

there should be a time that policies and procedures should remain the same until they can be evaluated to see if they work or need to be revised to be more efficient in completing the mission. I believe that taking over a department having numerous policies and procedures has more of an advantage than that of one with very few. If I were to inherit a department, I would prefer to take over a department with policies and procedures that were numerous. By having numerous policies and procedures it…

1. Discuss the purpose of an Information Security Policy and how it fits into an effective information security architecture. Your discussion should include the different levels of policies and what should be covered in an information security policy. A security policy should fulfill a multitude of purposes which a few are: Protecting people, information and setting the rules for behavior by all company personnel. Authorizing security personnel to monitor, probe and investigate. Defining…

objectives, program and policy design, developing an action plan, and monitoring and evaluation (Peak, 2012). The planned change process revolves around techniques for analyzing criminal justice problems and finding rational and successful solutions to rectify the problem. Criminal justice problems pertain to any new or revised program, project, or policy that is intended to change a specific problem. Although according to Peak (2012), planned change within the structure of policies are the…

The federal government should devolve more power to state government because policymaking is more effective at the state level. By allowing each state to pass policies that benefit them in their favor allows for state to run efficiently. Each states has their own economy that would be affected if the a policy was put into place that hinder their ability to produce the products needed to boost their economy and the nations. Federalism throughout has changed and shaped our modern federalism. The…

II. Theory Policies diffuse in a multitude of ways at different rates for many reasons. Diffusion for this paper is defined as the spread of ideas, most often polices of political importance. While many theories surround this idea, this paper will focus on the idea of coercion. Coercion as defined by Shipan and Volden (2008), as powerful actors wanting adoption. This powerful actor is most commonly another state. This assumes a state’s desire to conform to one or multiple other actors’ ideas,…