Accountability for me, has different meanings as well as the ability to trigger different thoughts relating to time where it has been an important part of my life.. Coming from a military background that word has heavy feelings associated with it and touches home when thought about as it pertains to personnel. As a leader in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places, accountability of my Soldiers was, next to safety, the most important thing for me. As the highest ranking non-commissioned officer in
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compromised accountability and legal and ethical responsibilities. Please note that all names and place names have been changed to ensure anonymity and confidentiality (Data protection Act, 2008; Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2015). An Integrated Support Worker (ISW) visited a patient for treatment of a leg wound. The ISW felt
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IMPORTANCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY, FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS, AND HOW DISOBEYING MAY AFFECT MY UNIT, ITS MEMBERS, AND MISSION READINESS In leadership roles, accountability is the acknowledgment and assumption of responsibility for actions, products, decisions, and policies including the administration, and implementation within the scope of the role or soldier position. Accountability also encompasses the obligation to report, explain, and answer for resulting consequences. As leaders often make decisions
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Manage Accountability Nena Davis Public Budgeting/ACC574 December 12, 2011 Pamela Scales Manage Accountability Public administrators across the United States of America strive to provide its’ citizens with programs and amenities for various purposes. Legislators create and enact programs such as the Community Development Block Grant Program that give a positive impact to individuals by creating jobs and rehabilitating poverty stricken neighborhoods
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This essay will be about the importance of keeping the accountability of sensitive items. The US Army values soldiers that are accountable for their actions. The accountability of sensitive items affects the unit in many ways. AR 710-2 and AR 735-5 both cover the Army policy for property accountability. Some sensitive items are your weapon, military ID card, commo equipment, etc. Sensitive items are anything that can be used by opposing forces or the enemy to counter attack, weaken forces, and gain
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establishing a new form of accountability one must look at the growing technological advances in the world. Police work in the public yet the direct supervision is limited and with the amount of discretion that has been given to officers, coupled with the limited supervision can present opportunities for misconduct. As we have moved into an advanced and technological world there are advancements that can not only help officers perform their duties but aid in the accountability (Walker & Archbold, 2014)
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concept of accountability entails one party being liable to responsible for its activities and for explaining or answering for their actions (Frink & Klosmoski, 2004). When you consider healthcare specifically you are looking at a complex workplace that is both multi-layered and multi-dimensional when you consider all of the potential types of workers that are involved across a patient’s entire continuum of the at your organization. Healthcare is a purposeful entity making accountability an essential
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Accountability in the workplace. Corrica Wrenfro HCS475 Eleanor Milo Abstract In reading this paper the reader will get a definition of accountability and will be able to see how the importance of accountability affects the health care industry they will get a outlook on how accountability is measured and how it relates to culture. The reader will see how accountability measures in the healthcare industry and what makes
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Accountability plays a huge part of the Army. Soldiers can be accountable for numerous things. Examples: a truck, personal weapons, TA 50 and paperwork. The Army spends lots of money on equipment and belongings for us soldiers, so the Army expects to know where all of are equipment is at all times. If you lose accountability of anything you can risk the threat of having items stolen or losing them. It is important that you maintain everything that belongs to you because it shows self-discipline and
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The Army wants soldiers that are accountable for their equipment. Accountability has many definitions one can be defined as having responsible of or being responsible for something. In my case it was my IOTV and ACH. It is also imperative to have good accountability of ever weapons and sensitive items that you have. Without having accountability there is no way of protecting those items and equipment given to you. The Army has many sensitive items and equipment that they deal with on a day
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Social workers advocate frequently for the world’s most vulnerable populations, making accountability complex. This is especially true when it comes to assessments and diagnoses as mental health practices, policies, and treatments change. Social workers can remain accountable by staying up-to-date on policy change and making sure they are practicing policy within their agency. Social work accountability can also so be shown by cultural competence and awareness, when dealing with mental health
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Accountability What is accountability? The obligation imposed by law or lawful order or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping. Why is accountability important to the Army? Accountability is
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Importance of Accountability By: Teresa Luna University of Phoenix February 21, 2011 Instructor: James Morello Accountability is honestly one of the most important aspects to the healthcare industry. It is one of those factors that one would expect to be a necessary part of an organization not only because it is expected but because it is a necessary evil. Employees need to be accountable for their actions in one way or another. An organization cannot function properly without this feature
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This essay I am going to write is about the importance of accountability in the army, and as to how it affect the units mission. First off by definition "Accountability is important in the military because soldiers are often times required to perform extremely challenging duties and services. Without accountability, a soldier cannot be expected to meet these high demands and expectations". Being accountable means being in the right place at the right time, being in the proper duty uniform, being
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It is very important to prioritize patient care and delegate tasks when it is hard to do them by yourself. Week eight reading changed my understanding of the concept of accountability in delegation in the way that it is not as easy as it can seem. The register nurse should utilize critical thinking and professional judgment before making the decision of delegation (Weiss &Tappen, 2015). The nursing process should be used in delegation. First, a nurse assesses patient care requirements, goals, level
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Accountability. The law helps people to keep health insurance, protect the confidentiality and security of healthcare information and help the healthcare industry control administrative costs (1). For example, the law prevents you from carrying information out of the facility you work in. Telling friends, and family who you took care of at the hospital, can get you in huge trouble. Also, you cannot make fun of a resident. For example let’s say a resident did something silly while you were at work
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Accountability and Consequences In the film “An Inconvenient Truth” director Davis Guggenheim, with the help of former United States Vice President Al Gore, tries to persuade the audience that not only was global warming caused by humans but that it poses a real and immediate threat to the survival of the human race. The main rhetorical strategy at play in this film is logos which Al Gore uses in its evidentiary and organizational forms to show-case and explain what global warming is, its effect
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11/SEP/2010 Importance of Accountability The importance of accountability, are being on time and in the right uniform. The main reason we have formations and that we are trying to keep account of personnel to know where everybody is at, at all times. I have learned in the past years that I have been in that being on time is the most important thing that you need to do. For one the accountability of personnel is major, it plays a big role in the deployment and the readiness of soldiers. I would
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The Community Accountability Panel (CAP) is a crime prevention program that works with a client who agrees to the referral and has chosen to forgo the route of due process. Four trained volunteers are utilized to guide the offenders and their supporters through the resolution process. The circumstances of the offence are discussed as well as any other relevant issues. There are four volunteer roles involved in the accountability panel process. The facilitator explains the legal ramifications of the
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Accountability in Practice Introduction In this assignment I intend to critically analyse the developing role of the advanced nurse practitioner in relation to analysing the professional accountability when making clinical judgement. The Royal College of Nursing informs us that ‘as a professional, you are personally accountable for actions and omissions in your practice, and must always be able to justify your decisions’ (NMC 2008) Accountability can be defined as ‘required or expected to be able
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satisfaction from knowing that their young ones learn English in a setting where they are wholly supported. The preferences, values, as well as needs, school administrators, will be sufficed by the rolling out of the proposed TBE. Presently, high-stakes accountability and testing are core considerations almost everywhere (Corson, 2001; Cummins, 2000). The public and parents make judgments regarding various schools based on the results. That is regardless of the actuality that the outcomes do not always offer
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children under six years old cannot be held responsible for breaking the law. Two topics will be discussed here, biosocial and psychosocial. It is important to understand that crimes can happen even at an early age but there must be an age of accountability. Young children don’t always understand consequences to their actions as adults do. Early childhood is a sensitive time for children. They are rapidly growing and learning the basics of life that they will build upon in the years to come.
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INFORMATION PAPER AHRC-PDE 15 Nov 06 SUBJECT: GoArmyEd 1. Purpose: To provide information on the Army Continuing Education System (ACES) centralized, automated, and virtualized Tuition Assistance (TA) process through www.GoArmyEd.com 2. Facts. a. ACES recently implemented a revolutionary modernization and new automated business process called Centralized Tuition Assistance Management (CTAM), giving Soldiers virtual access to request Army Tuition Assistance (TA) online through
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Accountability in a non-profit organization is important. Non-profit organizations need to take responsibility for their actions. Organizations can be held accountable in three ways. These are the rule of law, self-regulation, and transparency. Rule of law was self-explanatory to me. Organizations must comply with the laws on a local, state and federal level. (Worth, 2017) Although, this means that the organization is doing the bare minimum to be able to operate as a non-profit. With self-regulation
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Accountability requires being responsible, liable, dependable, and conscious. A more finite definition of accountability in reference to accounting and business is the obligation of an individual or organization to account for its activities, accept responsibility for them, and to disclose the results in a transparent manner. Being accountable also means that we accept responsibility for the outcomes expected of us whether good or bad. In trying to show the characteristics of being accountable
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University of the People HS 2711 Health Science 1 Discussion Forum Unit 8. Academic Year 2023-2024 Term: 3. Instructor: Dr. Tiffanie James Parker. March 26, 2024 Introduction According to the Health Inequalities Portal (2019), we must address the social determinants of health to achieve health equity and improve the population's overall health. Taking action in this field can bring positive outcomes for communities. However, it is crucial to thoroughly evaluate their effectiveness and
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Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act of 1996 serve the rights to protect the privacy of each individual health information. It gives patients an array of rights and must meet certain standards so that companies will not reach a security branch for providing confidential information on an individual. The Health Insurance Probability and Accountability privacy rules does allow the balance between that helps permits a person private health care information that is needed for in order
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Accountability, Representation and Control Abstract This paper is concerned with the concepts of accountability; representation and control explain the euro debt crisis in detail. The author takes a deeper journey into the meaning of occurs of Euro sovereign debt crisis by use of definition of ARC to in-depth explain this issue. We propose further examination of the ARC relating to the Euro sovereign debt crisis in order to propose a prosperous and harmonious of Euro zone. Table of Content
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An accountant face the ethical dilemma of reporting discovered accounting violations to the Financial Accounting Standards Board. While it is an ethical accountant’s duty to report such violations, the dilemma arises in the ramifications of the reporting. Government review of company financial records and the bad press caused by an accounting scandal could cause the company’s rapid decline and may lead to layoff of employees. Executives and other corporate officers could also face criminal prosecution
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Firearm Accountability The prevalence of guns in the United States is very high, it is estimated that there is nearly one firearm for every person who lives in our country. Each year, approximately eight million guns are produced worldwide, and over half are purchased by Americans. It is also estimated that nearly seventy percent of all homicides in the United States involve firearms. With the accessibility and crime rate associated with firearms being so high, gun control today is a highly debated
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