Emergency service

you hope to eventually serve? During my paramedic education, I had to fulfill clinical hours in the emergency department at Legacy Salmon Creek. During that time, I’ve interacted with patients who have suffered life-threatening ailments, but many of my interactions were with patients who weren’t experiencing life-threatening episodes. Understandingly, the latter of these patients use the emergency department because they lack the health insurance to afford a primary care physician or the local…

First responder refers to a person who has been trained in the emergency response field. First responders may have multiple tiers of training, depending on what the requirements are for the services they provide Firefighter is defined as a person who fights fires; spec. a member of a fire service trained to extinguish fires and to provide other emergency and rescue services. (firefighter, n." OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2016. Web. 21 March 2016).Fire fighters work either full or…

Over the course of the 90’s paramedicine slowly transitioned to a university course in response to the expanding role. Ambulance services have evolved from providing a simple mode of emergency transport to a provider of definitive care; to currently being a technical field of health providing pre-hospital assessment, diagnoses and treatment. Changes in the roles and skills performed by paramedics have resulted…

PROMULGATION STATEMENT/LETTER To All Recipients: This letter is written to convey the Emergency Operations Plan for the County of Okaloosa in the northwest region of Florida. It will provide a foundation for the use in performing emergency functions during a major disaster or an emergency in the county. This Emergency Operations Plan includes the four phases of emergency management. The four phases are: Prevention – the activities that help reduce or eliminate the probability of an incident,…

These devices are wired into a central control panel. When smoke or fire is detected, the control panel sets off alarms to alert anyone in the building. The building is divided into zones for the purpose of making it easier to determine where the emergency is occurring. One can see for example, if there is smoke in zone three. There are several different types of ways that alarms alert people to danger. Sound is one way, loud sounds are emitted. Audio alarms are not the only type, there are…

RN III to Clinical Nurse Resource Promotion I graduated from nursing school in 2011 and accepted my first nursing position here at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Saint Joseph Hospital in the Emergency Department that same year. I started my orientation with two other staff nurses and began working independently after eight weeks. I remember that I felt so unsure of myself and was frequently asking others for their input on patient cares. After I had been here for about one year, I recall I found…

troubling dilemmas in prehospital care that you have experienced?” 21% of the 400 EMT participants answered that the most troubling dilemmas “were conflicts involving do-not-resuscitate (DNR) situations. (Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medical Services: The Perspective of Emergency Medical Technician). This percentage is hardly surprising when considering the potentially complicated nature of DNRs. DNRs are complicated enough issues but add in suicides in relation to DNRs and it creates an…

Paramedics are similar to EMTs where they both are quick responders to the sick and injured in emergencies. While responding, paramedics are able to bandage a wound, asses a patient’s condition and identify the path of treatment needed, provide first-aid and life support treatment, transport patients in an ambulance to a hospital, and report knowledge of the patient to the staff at the hospital. Some paramedics are able to work on a helicopter or airplane with the proper training and equipment.…

AAS and FGS: Which is Superior? Anglo-American systems (AAS) and Franco-German systems (FGS) are the two main models for emergency medical services (EMS) that are used internationally. Two countries that have implemented each of these models are the United States and Germany – the United States has implemented the AAS while Germany has implemented the FGS. It is apparent that both systems work, as they have been used for over 40 years, but which one is superior? Although the answer cannot be…

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…