Patrol and investigation are the two primary components of a police department. Select the component that you believe is the more crucial of the two, and explain your selection. Support your position with two real-life examples.
Work through the Stanford Prison Study presentation.
Click (“http://www.prisonexp.org/ (Links to an external site.)”) to launch the online presentation of a study set up to evaluate the behaviors of “normal” citizens as they role play either a prisoner or a prison guard. Read through the entire presentation.
1. Basics. Each student will complete an autoethnography due on July 24, 10 pm. The length requirement is approximately 10-12 typed, 12 pt font, double-spaced pages (one-inch margins), APA style, etc.
2. What is an “autoethnography?” It is writing and qualitative research that connects the autobiographical and the personal to the cultural and social. This form usually features personal reflection (including emotion, embodiment, self-consciousness, and introspection) with a critical/theoretical reflection on the situatedness of self and others in social contexts. In other words, autoethnography is a kind of storytelling of one’s experience that seeks to communicate a social reality, a story or account that will impact and influence others to produce some kind of change for the better.
3. What does an “autoethnography” look like? It is an open form of qualitative research that may include literary elements such as poetry, dialogue between people one has encountered, or imagined dialogues, or fictional accounts, but it need not. It can purely consist of one’s recollected, historical life, and current personal experience. It also contains a healthy dose of social theory and context. Though it needs to be personal and introspective, it also needs to communicate some form of insight to others regarding a dimension of social life. Please see the example autoethnographies that have been made available online. Though the examples take up “critical,” progressive political commitments, your work may take your own commitments.
4. Topics for the autoethnography. This really will come from you and your own experience, but ideally will have connection with the themes of the course. For instance, how has modern psychology/psychotherapy affected your own life? How would you critique its aims and social influence from within your own experience? How has consumerism, advertising, media culture made you and your world the way it is, and how do you see this state of affairs? How has gender/sexual construction – its ideals, stereotypes, expectations – impacted your own experience, made certain realities possible, denied other realities? How has race/ethnicity – as a cultural matrix – affected you, given you certain horizons or ways of making sense of the world, produced suffering, or pride in identity? These are just a few ideas; there are many others.
Readings
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2012). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (Laureate Education, Inc., custom ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
Chapter 10, “Legislative Aspects of Nursing Informatics: HITECH and HIPAA”
This chapter explores two pieces of legislation that dramatically impact nursing informatics: the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
Arlotto, P. (2010). 7 strategies for improving HITECH readiness. hfm(Healthcare Financial Management), 64(11), 90–96.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
This article reviews seven strategies to help prepare for the implementation of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). The central point of the article focuses on demonstrating meaningful use of electronic health records.
Begum, R., Smith Ryan, M., Winther, C. H., Wang, J. J., Bardach, N. S., Parsons, A. H., & … Adams Dudley, R. (2013). Small Practices’ Experience With EHR, Quality Measurement, and Incentives. American Journal Of Managed Care, 19eSP12-8.
Practicum 1.2. Moral Management?
Assume that you are the top elected official of a county constitutional office,
such as the clerk or property appraiser. As part of your campaign to get elected,
you promise that you will demand that employees of the organization not
behave in a manner that jeopardizes the credibility and integrity of the office.
A week after you take office you learn that several employees who are married
but not to each other are engaging in intimate behavior that offends your
sense of morality and is causing disruption in the agency.
The agency’s written policy is quite clear. It states:
Agency personnel, whether married or single, shall not develop an association
with another member whom they know or should have known is
married to another person. Married members also shall not develop an association
with agency members who are single. Excluded from this are
members who are separated and residing apart from their spouse, or those
who have legally filed for divorce. For the purpose of this policy, “association”
means residing with, dating, or entering into any intimate relationship
with.
Questions
1. What do you do? Do you turn your head and hope the situation
disappears? Is this solution in the best interest of the organization?
2. Are you obligated to enforce the agency’s written policy?
3. Do you call the employees to your office and have a conversation
about adultery?
4. Do you consider revising the agency’s written standard of conduct?
5. What changes would you make in the existing policy?
Refer to the SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Dynamics Web sites (https://www.sap.com, https://www.oracle.com, and https://www.microsoft.com/dynamics).
Assess how these ERP systems would support your business requirements, in a mining company, in relation to its supply chain, logistics, procurement, and performance monitoring processes. Prepare a report from the perspective of a consultant, listing your recommendations and supporting them. Ideally, you should aim to prepare a 1,000-word report covering all relevant sections, including but not limited to: business requirements, system fit analysis, and a final recommendation for the system you would advise the client to use.
In paragraph one, introduce your topic with no more than 2 sentences. In the second sentence of your first paragraph, mention three items which will be addressed in your paper, your thesis. In paragraph two, address ONE of your three items. This should naturally be your first point mentioned in paragraph one, sentence two.
In paragraph three, address ONE of your three items. This should naturally be your second point mentioned in paragraph one, sentence two.
In paragraph four, address ONE of your three items. This should naturally be your third point mentioned in paragraph one, sentence two.
NOTE: paragraphs 2, 3, & 4 should begin with the topic sentence and 3-5 sentences should be added for support in each of these 3 body paragraphs.
10. Limit paragraph five to no more than two sentences. Simply close/summarize your paper and DO NOT mention any new information.
Texas Government
Instructions: Read this article “Analysis: Small Visions, Small Results in 2015 Session” at http://www.texastribune.org/2015/06/01/analysis-small-visions-small-results/
Please write a one-page response to this article using the questions as a guide.
Questions: What was the main idea of the article? Do you agree with the article that the 2015 Texas Legislature achieved modest results?
Imagine you are an inspector in the Village Engineering Department and have the responsibility to inspect the sidewalks of residents whose streets are being resurfaced. The village policy is clear—residents who live on streets that are partially resurfaced must pay up to $1,000 per home for their sidewalks to be replaced. But, residents on streets that are fully resurfaced are not required to pay. Your job is to determine how much a resident who lives on a partially resurfaced street must pay to replace the sidewalk. The technical criteria to determine the cost difference between a full resurface and a
partial resurface are murky. Moreover, as the inspector, you have found it
frustrating to try to explain the system to residents who are impacted. Moreover, it is your strong belief that the required fee is too great of a burden, particularly for a large percentage of the residents who are retired. After years of expressing your frustrations to the director of the engineering department and having them ignored, you decide to take the matter directly to the mayor.
The engineering director does not find your conversation with the mayor
amusing. Indeed, he becomes quite angry with you for going around him to
the mayor and having his policy decision questioned. He instructs you to proceed with collecting money from residents and lobbies the mayor to support the current policy. You continue collecting checks and contracts from residents but decide not to cash them or process the contracts because you feel the mayor will rule in your favor. And, you are right. The mayor concludes the system is unfair, and resident contributions are eliminated for all sidewalk replacement projects.
On hearing the mayor’s decision, you return the unprocessed checks and
destroy the contracts. The director, not having budgeted for the change, instructs you to continue with the old policy for the upcoming construction
season and to initiate the new policy the following year. Concerned about
losing your job, you lie and say that you had not collected any money. You
feel it would be impossible to collect the money for the upcoming project
year as the change in policy had already been announced in the local press.
In the meantime, the director investigates and finds that the money had indeed been collected and subsequently returned. In his opinion, this action was contrary to a direct order. You admit lying but claim that you had merely 50 followed the wishes of the elected officials. The director gives you a pink slip, thus terminating your employment with the village. You decide to appeal the decision to the assistant administrator.
Questions
1. Imagine you are the assistant administrator. What should you do?
2. Was the director right to fire the employee for her behavior? Was the
director acting out of his anger at having his decision overturned?
3. Did the inspector exhibit moral courage? Did she act in the best
interest of the community?
4. Is it ethical to disobey an order when you feel it is the right decision?
Should the inspector be disciplined?
Case Study 2 Theological Reflection Exercise: “For Better or Worse!”
Anderson, The Soul of Ministry, chapters 9-12
1. What action would you take or recommend in this situation?
2. What would be your immediate objective? What would be your longer range objection?
3. What underlying theological assumptions or presuppositions determined your response? (Support your assumptions with at least three references drawn from the material in chapters
4. Where biblical passages can be adduced in support of two apparently contradictory positions, what hermeneutical principles enable you to decide one way or the other?
5. In what critical areas of your own ministry are you faced with similar dilemmas, and what theological perspective of ministry will help you determine appropriate action?