Patient advocacy does not require nurses to agree, promote, or tolerate any demographic on a personal ideology. What nursing and healthcare does require is professionalism which dictates “[c]ulturally competent nurses…..recognize the harmful effects of ignorance, hate, ethnocentrism, prejudice, and bias on the health of their patients”. (p. 113) Advocating for Lia would necessitate an examination of her social determinates and propagate care that would produce the best patient outcome even if it requires a variance from normal practice.…
The United States as of the last 40 years or so has lost much trust in their government. In particular, they do not believe that congress is doing a very good job. Many believe that politicians are in the job just for the power and not to help the people like they are supposed to do. Former Massachusetts senator, Mo Cowan, argues that congress is doing a good job and is necessary in his paper “Cowan Farewell Address”.…
Term Paper “No man is ever good enough to govern another man without the others’ consent” –Abraham Lincoln. In current American politics, the United States congress has a low record of eleven percent acceptance rating. Despite such a low approval rating, the congress is still passing bills that become laws. In this essay, I will discuss how different political scientist argue as to why congress approval has been at an all time low. In depth, I will use Hibbing and Morse’s articles were the most persuasive of all other authors.…
The jobs, opinions, and responsibilities held by Representatives and Senators have their differences, while at the same time, maintaining a level of importance within our country. Regarding the Senate, men and woman like Senators Leahy and Hutchinson have many responsibilities. Their most important duty is to be able to balance the goals of others as well as the United States’ own interests. Taking Senator Leahy's work into consideration, he fought against the use land mines to better serve the safety of the people and succeeded in passing a law against it. Consistent with Leahy’s goal to serve and balance, Senator Hutchinson also delivers on this goal, with acts including the cutting of spending and making welfare reforms.…
Child neglect and a lack of proper care provided by parents are some of the most disturbing problems America faces. Despite the awareness, drug abuse with parents continues to rise and the child foster care system is flooded with children in desperate need of foster homes and case advocates. Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) does the best that they can to advocate for neglected children in the courtroom. This paper will address the history of CASA and an analysis of its effectiveness. There are many challenges the foster care system faces and the Court Appointed Special Advocate program has effectively worked to support the goal of helping abused children and neglected children by placing them in the right home.…
Members of Congress have many important responsibilities, one of those is to vote. Hundreds of times a year they are called upon to vote on bills, motions, and amendments. Members of Congress go through a process of information gathering, overlooking expert opinions, and considering their personal judgement before voting. Considering the amount of times Congress members vote, they have become accustomed to the particular sides to different public policy issues.…
When it comes to Congress careers, we mainly speak about the pursuit of reelection, the power the try to uphold and good public policy. With the pursuit of reelection, in order to come out on top lawmakers must work both sides of the spectrum. On one side you have the voters and supporters back home and on the other you have to work on creating power hungry careers on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers in the Constituency or Home Style careers fo mainly focus on giving their home base attention and those in the Washington Career focus on persuading those on the Capital side. Constituency Careers are more common of newer congress members.…
In accordance with Mayhew’s view Carson and Jenkins added four conditions said to be the building blocks of the electoral connection: ambition, autonomy, responsiveness and accountability. Ambition is feasibly the most important aspect of the electoral connection, congressmen must have the desire and ambition to be reelected and have a career in Congress supporting Mayhew’s main thesis. (Carson and Jenkins, 29) There has been a significant rise of congressional careerism, Carson and Jenkins focused on congressional careerism started during the 1890-1910 era. Ambition goes hand in hand with autonomy, which basically means if a member of Congress is ambitious about reelection he needs to be in the position to make it happen and to do it on his…
As a Congress person, there are many duties that must be done including constituent service, representation, legislation, and legislative oversight. I must constantly travel between my district to Washington to attend electoral duties, campaign for elections, meet with lobbyists, participate in committee activities, and the list goes on. Different Congressmen have different priorities, and those priorities may change with gaining maturity in office. The key to being an effective congress person is carefully selecting priorities and conducting a timely plan to deal with those priorities, but in government there are sudden changes and numerous complications. As a legislator I must be well educated and seek to find what issues there are and how these issues may be resolved.…
Amendment 1: Freedom of speech The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.” ― John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife…
Explain how national initiatives promote anti-discriminatory practice Discrimination occurs worldwide. In every country there are many forms of discrimination and in order to prevent discrimination there are legislations, codes of practice, charters and organisational policies. Sometimes these are not always followed through and some people break these national initiatives and are forced to serve consequences. Some of the legislations only occurs in certain countries for example the European Convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms act of 1950 is not eligible in the US or Asia. Legislations are a political act that has been turned into the law and they are to maintain health and safety.…
The concept of “checks and balances” is a policy implemented by our founders, which separates the three branches of government into the legislative, judicial and executive branches. The main purpose of this system is to ensure that the powers of the national government are separated from one another. The Legislative branch, composed of Congress is broken up into two chambers, the Senate and The House of Representatives. These two chambers are meant to have each state represented in them, of which officials were elected directly by the people in an open election.…
Science and Technology is one of the ten social institutions (Social Forces, n.d.). An institution is an established pattern of social relationships that exists to meet the needs of a society (Social Forces, n.d.). Because Science and Technology is always changing, we as a society and as an individual must change with it. I am now able to use advanced computer systems to create and research material for school, I am able to take online college classes, and I can connect with people from all over the world thanks to the social media and other websites. An endless amount of jobs has also been created in the scientific field.…
When I went on a tour of Virginia Military Institute, I knew that my future career would be combining a Military lifestyle with a computer or civil engineering. My desire to attend VMI started the day I visited the open house trip with my family. After I got home, I remembered how Captain John E. Riester immediately made me feel at home for his shorts introduction to Civil engineering. The school is different and unique with an outstanding reputation for its high-quality education in the Nation.…
1. Describe the process by which a bill becomes a law. Why do you think the process is so lengthy and cumbersome? A bill first starts as an idea, which can be started in the House of Representatives or the Senate by members of either house.…