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Exercise 2.6: Using Policy Publications Your Total Score:­­­_____ (Maximum 12 points)

A. Using CQ Researcher, find a publication that contains information relevant to your societal category at any geographic level. (6 points) Part A Score: ____


 * Using full sentences, quote no more than three sentences from the article that gives you a better understanding of your societal category** **here:** The failure of existing systems to protect patients' safety has led to the unfair singling out of nurses as scapegoats, when the real problem was a systemic failure within the hospital, according to the American Nurses Association, which supports mandatory reporting. The group points to the case of three registered nurses in Colorado who were charged with criminally negligent homicide after a medication error resulted in the death of an infant in 1996. After a physician had ordered a single, intramuscular dose of penicillin, a hospital pharmacist mistakenly sent up a much larger dose.

Exercise 2.8: Narrowing your societal category Your Total Score: _ (Maximum: 2 points)

Based on the research you have done in this chapter, narrow your societal category to a specific societal problem within it. Be sure to state it as a problem.

· ** State your societal category here: Crime ** · ** Indicate the search term you used and how many results your search generated here: Crime Rates, 5437170 results ** · ** Without visiting any of the individual Web pages on your print-out, circle all the Web page titles on that list, not including the sponsored links, that you think may be useful and indicate how many useful items you have circled here: [] **
 * **Write your specific societal problem, indicating a specific geographic location suffering from the problem here:** There is new concern about school violence, and police have assumed greater responsibility for helping school officials ensure students' safety. As pressure increases to place officers in schools, police agencies must decide how best to contribute to student safety. In the United States, fewer studies have been done. A recent study of a nationally representative sample of students found higher levels of bullying in America than in some other countries. Thirteen percent of sixth- through 10th-grade students bully, 10 percent reported being victims, and an additional six percent are victim-bullies.

· ** Identify the best source for information about the societal category you picked, go online and visit that page, and write up to 3 sentences describing specific reasons why you think this is a good source for your societal category: ** [] · ** The data is comprised of information from 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the nation. In addition, there is a strict guideline to follow when reporting a crime. For example, every crime has specifics stating what judgment or what level of crime it is to be rated. Lastly, because the data is covered by the entire nation and all reports are generally viewed in the same level, the data is very precise and worthy. ** · ** Identify one Web page you believe is probably not a good source for your societal category. Visit that page and write up to 3 sentences describing why this is not a good source for your societal category: ** [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_rate] · ** The data found within Wikipedia is not entirely accurate. One example of this is because the data in Wikipedia can be changed or edited by an outside source and although the possibility of having a good outside source is possible, the likeliness of a non-credible source is more likely. The website is not in compliance with any credible sources such as government agencies: FBI. Lastly the data found on Wikipedia about crime rate only represents the general term of “crime rate.” It doesn’t in fact show any statistics or rates of crime per year. It only shows how crime rates are recorded with some rules and regulation. Generally speaking, Wikipedia is barely a source or crime rates. **