Emergency management

Emergency departments provide twenty-four hour care for life threatening, chronic and acute conditions. However, the increase utilization of emergency departments lead to overcrowding and an increase in the number of individuals that leave without being seen (LWBS) by a physician. “According to a Center for Disease Control and Prevention report on ED use in the United States in 2000, at least 1.8 million patients left emergency departments without being seen” (Johnson et al., 2009). This is a…

their apartment. Mobile homes are impossible to make safe rooms for, so when there is a tornado warning, get out of the mobile home as soon as possible and find a nearby shelter. Once safe rooms or safe areas have been prepared, it is essential that emergency kits are created a stored in the safe rooms. A basic safe room should include food, water, first aid supplies, clothes toiletries, flashlights, batteries, dust masks, duct tape, plastic sheets, wrenches/ pliers to turn off utilities,…

roles and responsibilities or how the entire inter-governmental response system should operate” (Schneider, 2008). He also mentioned that it was the “mismatching of what various levels of government expected to do and what they actual do in any emergency situation” are the main contributors to this problem. As simplified by Walters and Kettl (2005), it was the problems of “poor coordination and communication” between levels of government were evident in the Hurricane Katrina events. Schneider…

The Domestic Preparedness cycle includes prevention, protection, response, and recovery. The Preparedness is about the planning, training, and exercising to increase awareness, performance, and the overall capabilities in all four phases of the preparedness cycle (Cordner, 2016). It includes developing intelligence-collection and information-sharing protocols, developing local response plans, training first responders, identification of critical resources, and development of mutual aid…

Post-Traumatic Stress in Emergency Department Nurses Emergency Department (ED) nurses throughout the world are frequently exposed to traumatic events (TE) at work. These events lead to symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Emergency Department nurses also encounter conflicts among management, which can affect the quality of services rendered to the patients. Emergency Department (ED) nurses use conflict management style to resolve conflict, and to determine whether their…

Background University of Missouri hospital is a Level I trauma center located in Columbia, Missouri that treats some of the most complicated injuries and illnesses. University Hospital’s trauma team cares for more than 25,000 emergency room patients each year. In addition, University Hospital boasts 247 patient beds and has a seven-story critical care tower equipped with the latest medical technology. University Hospital also offers hundreds of different surgical procedures in their state of the…

half of them were in Louisiana. Of the $120.5 billion in federal spending, the majority went to emergency relief, not rebuilding. Insurance claims covered less than $30 billion of the losses. The current socioeconomic demographics has changed somewhat than before.…

working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Gulf Coast Recovery Office (GCRO) as a consultant. My team had been engaged to help the GCRO address several financial management challenges that had been identified by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). With a background in business management and technology, I was tasked with leading the design, development, and deployment of a database that would serve as the centerpiece in a redesigned invoice management process. Eager to…

the distinguishing features of a crisis, as defined in the introductory essay you read from the Howitt and Leonard text this week? Howitt and Leonard (2009), in their segment on Hurricane Katrina, depicts in detail the features of New Orleans in emergency crisis in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A hurricane crisis which eventually escalated into a natural catastrophe as the storm's destructive winds and rain resulted in the rupture of the levees that had protected New Orleans from the…

managed to show people that they were there to help and because of the large quantity of people helped they were able to show that they were sticking around. Another agency that was present during this time but failed to impressive was Federal Emergency Management Agency, also known by as FEMA. During this time, FEMA appeared to be unorganized and unprepared for a disaster of this magnitude; this organization even struggled to establish a place of operations (A&E Television Network, 2014). Along…