... intended to capture the important details of an untoward incident of some type. In a tertiary health care setting, for example, incident reports may be required for all cases of patients falling (whether they injure themselves or not), for medication and blood transfusion errors, fires and instances of patient abuse (Berntsen, 2004). Unlike the continuous recording of events as with logs which ... five additional standards as follows: 1. Accuracy. The report must be accurate, devoid of mistakes in dates, amounts, spelling or even in recording the most seemingly unimportant facts or deta...

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... . It's wrongdoing, the appearance of wrongdoing, or puzzling behavior that violates standards, most often set in departmental policies and procedures that the officer may not even be aware of. Misconduct leaves the public free to speculate and generalize about the profession of policing as a whole. The variety of ethical dilemmas in policing range from the extremely serious (malfeasance), such as whether ... this step may find it hard to identify the difference between an "officer of the law" and a common criminal. This is a particularly dangerous violation of the role of a police office...

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