Emergency medicine

a. I am a member of the South Carolina Department of Public Safety’s (SCDPS) Emergency Management Unit. The main issue I have as a team leader is developing emergency plans for “Hurricane Operations” while integrating multiple agencies and functions to effectively evacuate the coast. I need to develop a team who can serve multiple purposes and capabilities. Specifically, the ability to supply personnel to support more than 1200 traffic control points off of the coast and inland 90 miles. This…

employees in these situations. My facility emergency response plan can be found online with all the policies and procedures. Accessing it is very easy. It is required that all employees know where to find this valuable information. Randomly the clinical coordinator will come on the floor and make sure that everyone knows where to find this information. During an unexpected disaster, the ADON would activate the system and start implementing the emergency plan. All employees at home should call…

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…

NCAA has created a comprehensive list of 11 different components of emergency planning and care that are to be followed by medical personnel, administration, etc. Athletic trainers play a major role in developing an Emergency Action Plan (EAP) and making sure that safety is always a priority for those involved in, or spectating at, any sporting event. The first component requires that someone who is qualified to give emergency care is present and understands that they are responsible. The…

profit for the hospital, thus making it a mutually beneficial benefit. These services can be grouped into the following: clinics, surgery centers, home health care that includes rehabilitation and postacute care, women’s conditions, and conventional emergency care (Shi & Singh, 2013, p. 166). In addition, there are mobile facilities that can aid the patient…

Disaster Serious emergencies, disasters and crises have become increasingly frequent in the recent years. In the past several decades, natural and man-made disasters have taken over 3 million innocent lives and badly affected millions more. When a disaster strikes, many lives may be saved by emergency crisis response. In fact, mass-casualty incident and disaster response is considered to be one of the biggest challenges for an emergency response system of every community. In fact, emergency…

Who wants to expose their loved ones to the overwhelming, chaotic emergency room? Watching significant people in your life critically hurt, or even indisposed can be a very stressful situation to deal with, especially if you are waiting for hours in an emergency room to even see a physician, or even get an update. This is why Urgent Care Centers are beginning to partner up with local hospitals in order to fulfill the important needs of patients with non-life-threatening injuries, rather than…

served as an Associate Medical Director for Orange County EMS and was the Program Director for the Orlando Regional Medical Center Emergency Medicine residency. He was an amazing physician, teacher, and mentor and always had a warm and unforgettable smile. The world lost an amazing person much too soon. Dr. Salvatore Silvestri, a central figure in Orange County’s emergency medical service who made all EMS practices based on evidence-based protocols and implemented programs that have become…

controversy on employers providing contraception in the health policy plan to women has sparked a lot of media attention. Some religious organizations do not believe in family planning methods, but supports a specific kind of birth but does not engage in emergency birth control have filed against this mandate. The Supreme Court ruled that religious employers are exempted in providing free birth control for women (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, n.d.). The regulations have some…

The status and impairment that I chose to address while doing the shopping center assessment was a patron of the store using a wheelchair. Hastings was the store that I assessed for accessibility, maneuverability, and safety using the Americans with Disabilities Act criteria. The following 13 categories represent the Accessibility Audit Requirements (Pierson & Fairchild, 2008). Ramps and slopes: The front entrance of the building did have an accessible slope from the road way to the sidewalk;…