wounds for charting and progression, not for release of information identifying the face of the patient. The nurse was in violation of the Privacy Act. This was a HIPAA violation. Administration separated the nurse for misuse of the company camera but could not comment on the reports to the state. A formal complaint was filed identifying disclosure of patient’s private information outside of consents authorized (Office of the Civil Rights, DHHS). The nurse had good intentions for her…
Opponents against torture will argue that the right of an individual against the practice of cruel and inhumane punishment is unequivocal, but proponents of torture could argue that the right of an individual to be free from the act of cruel and inhumane sufferings at the hand of a terrorist is unambiguous. How, then, do the government draw a fair balance between torture and liberty? Should the government forego effective interrogations of a terrorist suspect in the ticking time bomb dilemma…
Editorial Board). The National Security Agency was put into place by President Truman in order to send information to other intelligence agencies and is responsible for the global monitoring of the world. However, as Snowden revealed, “the vast scope of the National Security Agency’s reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe, as it collects information about their phone calls, their email messages, their friends and contacts, how they spend…
not meet expected standards of conduct. The codes are intended to reflect existing good practice and it is anticipated that workers and employers will recognise in the codes the shared standards to which they already aspire. All units equality act…
in court. The bank was held liable for those E-mails sent using Bank’s system. Cyber Crime Variants (explained) • Hacking – It is a crime which includes breaking into the systems and having unauthorised access to them. • Cyber Squatting – It is the act of registering a domain name of interest to someone else (eg. Business…
government sets up fusion centers on the fringes of their protests in which multiple agencies, such as FBI and Department of Homeland Security, team up with private companies to share information about the protestors. Considering the grand scale of this kind of intelligence sharing, it’s astounding that the FBI withheld information about a sniper that plotted to kill specific leaders of the Occupy Houston movement. Kade Crockford of the ACLU astutely pointed out that if the situation were…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was created by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects individuals against employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. Title VII applies to employers with 15 or more employees, including state and local governments, employment agencies, labor organizations, and the federal government. Title VII also prohibits employment decisions based on stereotypes and…
Privacy has to do with patient rights to control the sharing of their protected health information. That limit includes the sharing of paper, electronic data and verbal sharing with anyone except those directly involved in health care. The pharmacist was careless when he decided to provide counseling to an HIV-positive…
viewpoints regarding human rights and law itself, but also in a virtue ethics viewpoint regarding human morality. This essay will discuss how the call for torture was unethical based upon deontological, consequentialist, and virtue ethics.…
achieve its mission is somewhat restricted by the perceived rights of a margin of the…