Emergency department

A health professional is someone that specialises in a particular health profession. The career is carried out by undergoing a long period of training, in which you then qualify to be a registered health professional through formalized assessments and exams. A health professional is not only registered to be a health profession in the country she gained the qualifications from; but is recognized worldwide. In which she or he will then be given a license. A health professional needs to have all…

I learned very quickly that the emergency room is a fast and unforgiving place. From exposure to copious amounts of medical terminology, clinical decision-making techniques, and the variety of patient cases and symptoms; being a scribe has been one of the most influential aspects of my medical…

manufacturing or lean enterprise technique used to document, analyze and improve the flow of information or materials required to produce a product or service for a customer [1]. In the Emergency Department, the customer is the patient and the product is the service rendered. Central to Value Stream Mapping in the Emergency Department (“ED”) setting is its focus on the patient with analysis of activities viewed from the patient’s perspective. VSM is a strategic planning tool applicable to both…

The emergency room is where all of the injuries come to in order to be revamped. Many people work together in the emergency department, such as nurses, paramedics, and support personnel to care for people who have emergencies; although, the person with the most responsibility is the emergency department physician. The emergency room (ER) doctor or physician’s job has many parts to it, yet the first part is one of the most critical: stabilize, assess, and determine whether to admit or transport…

that the ever-changing nature of medicine would allow me to utilize my skills to the fullest and challenge me daily. The dynamic nature of work in the emergency department always intrigued me. I pursued this curiosity by volunteering at the Emergency Department of Children 's Hospital of Michigan. I chose this setting because the emergency department is the forefront of primary care; it is here that all types of patients…

In The US Emergency Care System: Meeting Everyday Acute Care Needs While Being Ready for Disasters, Nicole Lurie, Gregg S. Margolis, and Kristin L. Rising, state important points to why an Emergency Room should only be utilized as Urgent Care. The article was written as part of research an attempt to improve better outcomes in Emergency Departments. They are in search of a suitable action plan to suit both the non emergent and emergent situations. This paper will review the authors purpose to…

When an illness or injury appear out of nowhere, you would usually go to an emergency room, but no one is being helped fast enough at an emergency room, so instead, people have turned to one of the fastest-growing segments of American health care: urgent care, a walk-in clinic. Although urgent care is not exactly like an emergency room, it is a clinic that handles many medical problems that are not too severe but need to be treated right away, especially if your primary care physician is not…

Guernsey County Health Department. The health department is located at 326 Highland Ave, Cambridge, Ohio 43725 and can be reached by phoning: (740) 439-3577. Hours of operation are Mondays: 8:00AM- 5:30PM and Tuesday-Friday: 8:00AM- 4:30PM. For this discussion board, I will be creating an overview of my local health department and the services provided, provide a brief overview of emergency planning components, and explaining the role of the community health nurse. Health Department Overview…

What are the problems with the Smith Hill Emergency Management organization? With the failure to have an emergency management organization chart and the people properly identified to function in any capacity of an emergency from it most basic form to a catastrophic event is the biggest problem for the resident of Smith Hill. According to Perry, Prater & Lindell the town has a “very small tax base and a very small budget (2006, 83). This cannot be neglected even if it is true; it must be…

and Recovery go hand in hand. However, the Response portion of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Model refers to any activities that help to stop the spread of a disaster or emergency that is currently taking place (United States Department of Veterans Affairs, 2015). To better explain, Response is enacted at the same time the incident is taking place (Ryan, 309). There are three goals associated with an emergency response, the first is to protect the public, the second is to limit the…