Explain why voluntary intoxication is no excuse for committing a crime but involuntary intoxication is. Do you agree or disagree?

1. Describe the four elements of the defense of duress. Explain how, depending on the requirements of different states, a defendant may or may not be able to use the defense of duress based on these four elements.

2. Explain why voluntary intoxication is no excuse for committing a crime but involuntary intoxication is. Do you agree or disagree?

3. What are the two major approaches to the entrapment defense? Which one do you think is best?

4. What impact did the acquittal of John Hinckley have on the insanity defense in the United States? Be sure to provide examples.

As a corporate manager, discuss two potential benefits of a MNC to your company.

Multinational Corporations (MNCs) have experienced enormous growth in recent decades. Briefly, what is a MNC? As a corporate manager, discuss two potential benefits of a MNC to your company. What is one reason your union may voice opposition?

Most unions have opposed free trade agreements such as NAFTA and TPP. Most employer lobbying groups have been supportive. Select a trade agreement and create a pro or con argument. (Please note what an argument is in the link below.)

Please use at least two references.

https://clas.uiowa.edu/history/teaching-and-writing-center/guides/argumentation
https://www.thebalance.com/history-of-nafta-3306272
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp

Discuss how the BSN-prepared nurse can assist a nurse leader in the budgeting process by contributing data readily available to the staff nurse.

In Huston’s (2010) brief, but impressive article (required reading this week), the author outlines several leadership competencies that EVERY nurse leader will need for 2020. That year is not too far in the future, is it?

  1. Select one of the eight leadership competencies Huston described and relate it to your own leadership of nurses and nursing. This should promote a robust discussion as we come from different clinical and nonclinical perspectives.
  2. Discuss how the BSN-prepared nurse can assist a nurse leader in the budgeting process by contributing data readily available to the staff nurse.

Huston, C. (2010). What skills will the nurse leaders of 2020 need? (2010). Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, 16(6), 14–15.