Mandatory reporting is a legal requirement‚ in state statute or regulation‚ for nurses to report an occurrence or individual‚ including another nurse‚ when the public is at risk. Mandatory reporting is enacted when the interest of public protection requires state-enforced regulation. This article offers guidance to help nurses better understand their roles and responsibilities in mandatory reporting. What Is Mandatory to Report? In addition to reporting of nurses by other nurses‚ states seek
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and Wyoming New Hampshire and Tennessee impose an individual income tax only on interest and dividends VIII. Employment Taxes FICA taxes FUTA (Unemployment) taxes IX. Other Taxes Federal customs duties Franchise taxes Occupational taxes X. Proposed Taxes Flat tax Value added tax National sales tax XI. Tax Administration Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Types of audits: Correspondence audit Office audit Field audit XII. Statute of Limitations
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At present (April 2001) only the state of Oregon has a statute permitting doctor-assisted/physician-assisted suicide (DAS/PAS) and then only within very narrowly prescribed circumstances‚ i.e.‚ for a terminally ill patient. In the November 1998 elections‚ voters in Michigan defeated a ballot measure to legalize doctor-assisted suicide. Earlier in the last decade‚ voters in California and Washington state defeated similar ballot measures. A bill similar to Oregon’s PAS law died in the Maine
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Matthew Shepard Case Brief Facts: Twenty one year old‚ University of Wyoming college student‚ Matthew Shepard‚ died October 12‚ 1998 at 12:53 a.m. after spending five days in a comma due to massive injuries and head trauma in a robbery and hate crime assault (Matthew Shepard‚ 2000 [on-line]). Matthew Shepard met Aaron McKinney (22) and Russell Henderson (21) of Laramie in a local bar called Fireside Lounge. McKinney and Henderson had been drinking. The two led Shepard to believe they were
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South Carolina‚ Vermont‚ West Virginia‚ and Wisconsin. back 3 Delaware‚ Florida‚ Idaho‚ Indiana‚ Kentucky‚ Maryland‚ Mississippi‚ Nebraska‚ New Hampshire‚ New Jersey‚ New Mexico‚ North Carolina‚ Oklahoma‚ Rhode Island‚ Tennessee‚ Texas‚ Utah‚ and Wyoming. Three of these States (Mississippi‚ New Hampshire‚ and New Mexico) also enumerate clergy as mandated reporters. back 4 The issue of clergy-penitent privilege also may be addressed in case law‚ which this publication does not cover. back 5 Clergy
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References: Assisted Suicide Assisted Suicide by Althea Clark-Harris-Stowe State University Student Healthcare Law and Ethics July 18‚ 2010 This paper will attempt to illustrate assisted and physician suicide and the effects it brings on the patient‚ physicians‚ and providers and last the family members. I will conclude my paper with the laws related to assisted and physician suicide and my opinion on both assisted and physician assisted suicide. Kate Cheney‚ 85‚ had terminal cancer
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RECORDS MANAGEMENT MANUAL Wyoming State Archives Division of Cultural Resources Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources August 2009 CONTENTS Introduction Records Retention Schedules: How Schedules Are Established Electronic Records General Schedules State Records Center: Purpose and Ownership of Records Active Record Systems Transfer of Records to the State Records Center Transfer of Records Scheduled for Microfilming Records Research and Retrieval Destruction of Records
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Controlling Organized Crime CJA 384 Controlling Organized Crime Combating organized crime can be an intricate task. Various laws exist in the fight against organized crime‚ and some have been successful in prosecuting several members of organized crime groups. However‚ without the refinement of such laws‚ organized crime groups will just find ways to get around such laws. Law enforcement efforts to combat organized crime can run into limitations as far as what law enforcement can and cannot
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was the same civilisation that murdered Earl for his implied homosexuality with Rich when they set up a ranch together without either of them having a wife in Proulx’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’. Both Jack and Ennis grew up in the state of Wyoming where the sodomy statute was changed in 1951 to double the penalty of being found to have had anal sex‚ the law stated ’Whoever commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature ... who being male carnally knows any man or woman through the anus’ (cited
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definitely improved. After the death of Augustus‚ his success began to be known. Probation was officially recognized in 1878 when Massachusetts passed the first probation statute for juveniles. However‚ not until 1901‚ did New York pass the first statute authorizing the use of probation for adult felons. By 1927 all states except Wyoming had accepted some form of probation for all juveniles but not until 1956 did all states in the US approve probation for all adult offenders. Up until the 1960s probation
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