Buyer be aware when it comes to "good medical practice" and "standards of care"
I am haunted by the following statement from Are drugs being misused on foster kids?
But if the foster care system is designed to protect children who've been harmed, why would they engage in this if in anyway it was harmful to children?
"To me, the true travesty of the situation is that we take children who just got a bum rap in life to begin with and they get into the system and are further abused chemically," Olsen says.
Accountability and responsibility seem to be two words severely lacking in Foster Care. It seems abuse of power is abundant, and it is the child, not the adults, who suffers the most.
The average person must remember, medicine is a business, powered by the use of new drugs, therefore it is not without flaws. There are incentive programs made by drug companies, and they are directed towards doctors. Consider the following, and ask how does this affect children?
Bottom-Line Reasons for Incentive Programs
Incentive programs are one of the few business strategies in which cost can be based on actual performance and paid out after the desired results have been realized. And, the desired results make a positive impact on the organization's bottom line.
In addition, a study conducted by the International Society of Performance Improvement, called. "Incentives, Motivation and Workplace Performance: Research & Best Practices," found:
* Incentive programs improve performance. Effectively designed and properly implemented incentive programs increase performance by an average of 22 percent. Team incentives can increase performance by as much as 44 percent.
* Incentive programs engage participants. The research found that incentive programs can increase interest in work. When programs are first offered for completing a task, a 15 percent increase in performance occurs. Asked to persist toward a goal, people increase their performance by 27 percent when motivated by incentive programs. When incentive programs are used to encourage "thinking smarter," performance increases by 26 percent.
* Incentive programs attract quality employees. Organizations that offer properly structured incentive programs can attract and retain higher quality workers than other organizations.
An incentive program will not compensate for lack of training, a poor product or inadequate marketing. However, as a part of an integrated business strategy, well-executed incentive programs motivate people at all levels of the organization. The bottom line is organizations that successfully motivate their workforce to achieve specific goals will realize the greatest financial gains over time
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As adults, we know there are fakes and frauds and people motivated by greed, not compassion. As adults, we owe it to all children they not get hurt by wolves and vultures.
Until radical reform takes place in our social-service programs, what sort of life-lesson is each state leader teaching our children?
It's my personal opinion Foster Care is in need of serious review in terms of Good Medical Practice and reasonable standards of care. From a medical and parenting perspective, we must ask: "How much education is a unprotected minor given in terms of toxic drug side-effects?" In fact, how much is known about long-term use of anti-psychotic drugs for the pediatric patient? When a child becomes a ward of the state, does informed consent get flushed down the toilet?
As a mom, I can not help but cry for those mothers, fathers and children who have no idea wolves and vultures are tending to the medical needs of minors. When did a pill replace the nurturing love only a good mommy and daddy can give?
There must be other options to America's cruel Foster Care System.
How in the world do other countries take care of their children? Surely there are lessons young America can learn from other parts of the world.