Conflict Reduction Strategies According to EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act), hospitals are responsible to ensure on-call physicians respond in a reasonable time frame and medical staff bylaws, or policies and procedures, mus Continue Reading...
ASLP Planning Emergencies Emergency management plan is the document that contains information on how the authorities, people and businesses can respond, prepare and mitigate the risks associated with hazards in the United States. The emergency plan Continue Reading...
Command System and Emergency Crisis: Handling Unanticipated Situations How can crisis managers and those in the roles of general staff within the incident command handle the situation with the news media that may be presenting conflicting informati Continue Reading...
As far as preparedness for the events that happened on April 19, 1995, the federal government could in fact be cited as negligent. However, it was, as Representative Key points out, not the desire of the government, or even the governor of Oklahoma Continue Reading...
Disaster Specific Plans Emergencies can be and have always been when we least expect them. This means we need to have plans to respond to them in a manner that will put the larger population out of danger and in the safest position possible. There a Continue Reading...
Annals of Emergency Medicine, in 2014, and is titled Apneic oxygenation was associated with decreased desaturation rates during rapid sequence intubation by an Australian helicopter emergency medicine service." The article studies a new technique th Continue Reading...
40-year male presented to the emergency room at 11 a.m. In the morning with complaint of pain all over his body. On history, he did not state that the pain was localized; rather he complained that his entire body was aching. The man was asked to lie Continue Reading...
Hurricane Harvey: Emergency Management Billed as being one of the most costly tropical cyclones in recent times, Hurricane Harvey, according to the National Hurricane Center (2018) caused damage worth $125 billion. According to McGillivray (2017), bo Continue Reading...
National Preparedness Goal National Preparedness, the Presidential Policy Directive #8 (PPD-8), gives a description of the approach of the United States (U.S.) in the area of being prepared for threats and hazards posing the highest risk to American Continue Reading...
Natural disasters have the potential to dramatically alter life in local communities. The loss of human life reverberates through the generations, as does the loss of local businesses and the generalized economic and psychosocial strain. Yet there ar Continue Reading...
Phases of Crisis and Emergency ManagementPreparedness is the process of making plans and having the needed equipment and supplies for saving lives when a disaster occurs. Preparedness takes the form of plans or procedures that have been put in place Continue Reading...
elective or emergency childbirth, a choice between general and local anesthesia is often called for. Cognizing the surroundings helps the birthing process. Therefore, a local anesthetic administered via an intrathecal spinal injection or through a c Continue Reading...
IntroductionThe natural disaster selected for this discussion happens to be earthquake. Like many other disasters, earthquakes happen to be not only destruction to property, but also detrimental to the health and wellbeing of those who live in affect Continue Reading...
New Continuity Manager What do you think is going on here? Business continuity planning and disaster recovery capability has become mandatory for all healthcare organizations in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), pass Continue Reading...
Workflow chart criticism: "A patient arrives in the ER" First and foremost, this workflow could benefit from a clearer title. The flow does not merely delineate what happens when a patient is admitted to the ER but rather what transpires when a pati Continue Reading...
poor morale in emergency room (ER) nurses and identify an empirical approach and research question involving factors that can improve morale in ER nurses. Interestingly enough, the United States "has the most expensive healthcare system in the world Continue Reading...
WMDs and Emergency Response Although it is still fresh, the most recent major terrorist incident was the most severe: the attack on the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City and on the Pentagon. Thousands of people died on September 11, 20 Continue Reading...
Homeland Security and Emergency Management. M7D1: Social Media and Risk Communications According to Bullock (et al. 2013) the four methods of risk communication include mitigation or "to promote implementation of strategies, technologies, and acti Continue Reading...
For example, a person barricaded in a bank after trying to rob it has different motives and priorities than someone who has kidnapped their child and is holed up in a house. The tactics will have to be different because what is driving the actions a Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. Disaster Preparedness in Agriculture: Explore the strategies and measures that agricultural communities can implement to prepare for natural disasters like floods, droughts, and hurricanes. 2. The Rol Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Role of Technology in Enhancing Agricultural Emergency Response: This essay topic explores how advanced technologies, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), drones, and early warning syste Continue Reading...
Emergency Management The recent mass shooting event at a public school in Broward County, Florida, has brought up the issue once more of how emergence management teams can work together to address these kinds of issues. This paper will discuss the ev Continue Reading...
Lack of Mental Treatment and Support Introduction and Overview Emergency departments (EDs) can play a major role in reducing the risk and occurrence of suicide, self-harm and harm caused to others by taking steps to create a safety plan for the patie Continue Reading...
Hajj is the largest gathering in the world, attracting millions of Muslims each year. As the Muslim community worldwide grows to well over one billion, the number of pilgrims to Makkah (which is sometimes spelled Mecca) also grows The sheer numbers Continue Reading...
Responding to Concurrent Public Safety EmergenciesMurphy's Fourth Law postulates that, If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. The corresponding corollary to this l Continue Reading...
Mass Casuality Decontamination Mass Causality Decontamination Throughout the past era, worries about possible terrorist acts concerning weapons of mass destruction (WMD) directed Congress and the President to obtain a complete counteract terrorism Continue Reading...
Introduction Hurricane Maria was the strongest hurricane to strike Puerto Rico in nearly a hundred years when it made landfall on the tiny island state in September of 2017 (Amnesty International, 2018). Maria followed upon the heels of Hurricane Irm Continue Reading...
The Train Derailment Chemical Spill Response Annex Introduction The three main priorities that the National Incident Management System (NIMS) provides for any emergency response operation are: to save lives, stabilize the incident, protect property a Continue Reading...
Management System: Role of EMS EMS Duties during Emergency Operations The Emergency Operations Plan for most municipalities in the United States defines how emergency services will respond to a disaster. A good example is the one outlined by the C Continue Reading...
Case Study: Federal/State/Local Collaboration Networks in Disasters1The period of creative federalism was a period of increased federal and state collaboration in the United States during the 1950s and into the 1960s. This period was characterized by Continue Reading...
Emergency Management and Disaster Readiness of Trauma Centers in Washington, DC Effective and immediate response of health care providers during emergency situations is very critical to meet the need of the affected population during the man-made a Continue Reading...
Quote Related to COVID-19Bates (2019) wrote an article on long-term public health problems that are brought about by a natural disaster. While the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster is characterized by treatment and control of physical injurie Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act and EMS The affordable care act is a medical insurance program that came into existence during the Obama regime. This came as a subsequent addition to the Medicaid and Medicare programs as fronted in the year 1965. The motive be Continue Reading...
Law Enforcement Communications Interoperability of Emergency Service Communications The number and scope of each individual emergency and public safety agency has resulted in an ad hoc patchwork of communication equipment. Routine daily needs withi Continue Reading...
M1D1: Concept of Homeland Security Enterprise HSE (Homeland Security Enterprise) was designed to better coordinate the resources of all law enforcement functions that fall under the auspices of the DHS. DHA strives to provide law enforcement agencie Continue Reading...
Planning Across Levels of Government: Federalism and the Planning for the Response to Emergencies This paper will be in the form of a governmental response plan to the natural disaster: Hurricane Katrina. Early morning, on the 29th of August, 2005, Continue Reading...
The quality of care provided by the nurse practitioner in the emergency departmentAbstractOver the last two decades, Emergency department crowding has become an increasingly common occurrence. Longer wait durations in the emergency room are linked to Continue Reading...
