Emergency management

pre-medicine requirements in order to attend medicine school. While in school I was working at Walmart, it was a decent job. However, my passion to work on the healthcare field, made me put my pre-medicine studies to a standby, and enrolled in an emergency medical technician program. Upon completion of the EMT program, I obtained a Florida EMT license. Later that year, I started working for Florida…

Extraordinary curiosity, tenacious integrity, and ceaseless resiliency combine to create the ideal student, teacher, and researcher. Inspired by the potential from understanding social dynamics, I have labored endless hours admiring the work of research from those who exemplify these traits and have become adamant about my pursuit of a career in sociological research. Through these endless hours of labor, I have developed the characteristics and mentality to exceed expectations in the field of…

prehospital providers travel out of the region, into another state’s jurisdictions. Who is responsible for medical oversight of state? If a different medical director is responsible, do they assume liability? In the case of interfacility transfers, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), the referring physician is responsible for the patient being transferred from one facility to another, until the patient arrives at the receiving facility (Interfacility, 2006, p. 12). However,…

The Emergency Medical Services as we know it today has a very humble beginning based on evidence from 1500 Before Christ(B.C.) when evidence indicates a Good Samaritan treated wounds of a injured person found on the side of the road with oil and wine per protocol of that era. EMS education has grown from that day on primarily through knowledge gained from multiple conflicts and wars that date as far back as the napoleonic wars. This knowledge was taught to military medical providers and…

If you’ve been following my blog you know that at the Eustache Institute we specialize in neurofeedback therapy. However, an additional treatment we proudly provide is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), which involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber, allowing our lungs to gather more oxygen than would be possible breathing pure oxygen at normal air pressure. Our blood will then carry the oxygen throughout our body and our organs, helping to fight bacteria while stimulating the…

What you did? I was doing my internship at Douglas County Emergency Operation Center; we were a group of three students who are majoring in Emergency Management. Whitney Shipley supervised and taught us a lot of things during the semester. We had done tabletop exercise with three different agencies; each one of us had to choose to meet with the Police department, Business organization, and Red Cross. I chose the Red Cross and met with them many times. The Red Cross is doing an exercise in the…

stronger socials infrastructure for resilience (Chandra, 2011). Developing strong communication networks allow for cohesive and integrated communication throughout a population, especially when dealing with at-risk or populations that need to receive emergency alerts and information through alternative means (Chandra, 2011). In both a public health and disaster response paradigm, it has been identified that population health literacy is an important component of community resilience. It consists…

school-based crisis preparedness, school districts may have inadequate emergency preparedness programs or lack programs altogether” (Clarke and collages, 2014). When there are gaps in the school-based crisis management plan, there is not opportunity to prepare students, faculty and to identify all needs required to be successful. Each school has a wide range of abilities from academics, physical and social abilities. Crisis management plans must address a range of disabilities that students…

Having emergency plans for your business is not an option - they are a necessity. Simply having a fire safety or emergency action plan isn't enough either. A big red binder full of procedures is only the beginning. You need to manage your plans, keep them up-to-date and train your emergency personnel so they know what to do should an emergency occur. It may sound like a daunting task to maintain your fire safety & emergency plans on an ongoing basis, but there are ways to make it easier, such as…

5. Continue to follow established emergency escalation protocols, a decision will be made on declaring an incident. 6. IF a declaration is made, the Manager point of contact will update the Team and ACME Computers management as soon as possible. IR Plan 6 When the Team is notified of the event, they will immediately contact the business management on the incident, asking them to remain on standby. The Team will report to the scene…