Employment Practices Liability. Employment Practices Liability is an area of United States law that deals with wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, invasion of privacy, false imprisonment, breach of contract, emotional distress, and wage and hour law violations. Employment Practices Liability is part of professional liability.
Poinsettias were first introduced in the United States in 1825 by Joel Roberts Poinsett (20,24) (Fig. 2). While serving as the first United States Ambassador to Mexico, he visited Taxco and found the flowers growing on the adjacent hillsides.
As early as 1311 we read of nurses and women surgeons in the old French chronicles, and they were common enough in England in King John's time. Of course it was Florence Nightingale, by her heroic services in the Crimea, who first brought nursing to the dignity of a profession.