Employer Liability

Directions:

Read the scenarios and provide a written response of 75-100 words to each scenario in the space provided.

Scenario 1:

You are the chief administrator of a local youth softball league in charge of hiring coaches for the upcoming season. The coaches are not well paid, and it is difficult to get enough coaches for your eight teams. The participants in the program are young girls, ages 8 to 14. The season is fast approaching, and you need to fill the last coaching position very quickly. Finally, a man applies who has just moved to your area. He seems very personable, and he tells you that he has coached softball for the last 10 years in other youth organizations.

You are very impressed with this person’s knowledge of the sport and his outgoing personality. So you hire him without doing any reference checks. If you had done any investigation, you would have found out his last coaching position ended with accusations against him of sexual abuse of his female players. Also, if you had done a criminal background check, you would have uncovered a conviction for a sexual offense with a minor. One month after being hired, this coach sexually molests a girl on his team.

Question:

What liability can exist?

Response:

Scenario 2:

You are employed at a tennis club as the head teaching pro. According to your job descriptions, you are responsible for making sure that the assistant pros run instructional drills properly. Since you are very busy with your own lessons, you have not watched any of the drill sessions run by one of the assistant pros. If you had observed any of the drill sessions, you would have seen that the assistant pro was not following good safety practices as he set up the overhead drills. He was having students hit overheads while the people on the other side of the net were doing another drill. Someone was hit by an overhead and was seriously injured.

Question:

What liability can exist?

Response:

Scenario 3:

Bob Strong is the general manager of Fit and Well, a health and fitness club owned by Win Corporation. Strong is in charge of all employment-related matters, including hiring, firing, and disciplining employees.

Six months ago, Strong hired Adam Easton to be the club’s director of fitness. Easton came highly recommended, with superb credentials. After one week on the job, Strong received a complaint from another employee, Tammy Riley, that Easton had screamed at her for making a scheduling mistake and had essentially backed her into a corner as he screamed, using his size and strength to intimidate her. Strong listened to Riley’s story but did not investigate further and did not talk to Easton about this incident. After one month on the job, Strong received another complaint about Easton’s violent behavior from Jessica Barker, another club employee.

On this occasion, Easton screamed obscenities at Barker and grabbed her arm to emphasize a point. Strong again listened to Barker’s report but chose to do nothing, because Easton was doing a great job outside of these outbursts. Over the course of the next five months, Strong received similar complaints from five other employees and one club patron about Easton’s increasingly violent behavior. Strong once had a “chat” with Easton about the issue, but he never took any disciplinary action. In the sixth month, Easton exploded and punched one of the club’s patrons, sending her to the hospital with a broken jaw and a concussion. This patron is now going to sue Strong and Win Corporation based on Easton’s intentional tort (battery). (Note that a criminal case could also be made against Easton.)

Question:

On what bases could the patron win her lawsuit?

Response:

Scenario 4:

Lou Less, the athletic director at Cleveland High School, is reviewing bids from bus companies. The high school needs to use an outside company to transport athletes to some of the away games. The contract with the chosen company will be set up as an independent contractor relationship. The Ace Bus Company has, by far, the lowest bid for the services, and Ms. Less decides to take that bid without doing any investigation of that company. If an investigation had been undertaken, the record would have shown that several of Ace’s drivers have been cited for reckless driving or driving while intoxicated.

En route to an away basketball game, one of the buses is involved in a serious vehicular accident. It was caused by an Ace driver who was driving while under the influence of alcohol. Several of the school’s athletes are injured in the crash. And numerous lawsuits have been filed against the school district. Ms. Less feels confident that there can be no liability for the school district in this case. Because the contract with Ace Bus Company clearly designates it as an independent contractor, for which the school district has no vicarious liability.

Question:

Is Ms. Less correct in believing that there can be no school district liability here?

Response:

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the development of a homeland security strategy for counterterrorism

Instructions

After reading the Flynn article located in your required reading for this unit, you will create an article critique in which you will summarize the contents of the article and respond to the following questions:

• What is the author’s main point?
• Who is the author’s intended audience?
• Do the author’s arguments support the main point?
• Why is it important to involve U.S. citizens in the development of a homeland security strategy for counterterrorism? How can the U.S. federal government encourage citizens to become a part of the homeland security strategy?

Within your article critique, you will also discuss the importance of considering intelligence; border, immigration, and customs enforcement; transportation security; and cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection when developing a homeland security strategy for counterterrorism including how U.S. citizens could play a role in these specific areas.Your article critique should consist of at least three pages and utilize APA style formatting. Please use at least one additional academic source in addition to the assigned article, and be sure that all citations and references utilize proper APA style.

Discussion Board Assignment. Culture and Health Care System

Find a nursing ethical journal to answer the questions on the attached file. Reference your source in APA format.

Answer accordingly to each questions, at least four (4) lines to each question.

You are working in an ICU where a 16-year-old girl is in critical condition after an auto accident. Her mother comes in and begins to sing, sprinkle tobacco around the bed, hang eagle feathers and crystals around the room, and move her hands back and forth above the girl’s body. The girl’s nurse tells the mother that visiting time is over and that she should take all these dirty things out of the room. The mother insists on staying by the bedside and says that if she had placed rosary beads or Bibles in the room she would not have been questioned.

· What cultural and spiritual issues are evident in this situation?

· Apply cultural competence to this case.

· Discuss complementary therapies evident in this situation?

· How would you incorporate spiritual care?

· How would you approach this situation?

· What principles would guide you?

Module 03 Assignment- Interventions to Promote an Environment of Safety

Purpose of the Assignment

Identify strategies to reduce the risk for injury to clients in various environments.

Course Competencies

· Select appropriate nursing interventions when providing multidimensional care to clients experiencing alterations in mobility.

· Strategies for safe effective multidimensional nursing practice when providing care for clients experiencing sensory and perception disorders.

Instructions

In a one page Word Document, plan interventions with rationale which will promote an environment of safety for the described client below. Consider the client’s medical history and medications.

Mr. Joe Smith, 75-year old man, recently suffered a left cerebrovascular accident. He has right visual field deficits and residual weakness in this right arm and leg, uses a walker for mobility. And takes Metoprolol for his blood pressure and the physician started him on Coumadin because he has recently been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.

Use at least two scholarly sources to support your interventions and rationale. Be sure to cite your sources in-text and on a reference page using APA format.

You can find useful reference materials for this assignment in the School of Nursing Guide https://guides.rasmussen.edu/nursing/referenceebooks

Have questions about APA? Visit the online APA Guide

https://guides.rasmussen.edu/apa