Paramedic

To begin, I viewed the clip “It’s A Nurse”, which is what my response is in reference to. The first ethical concept I noticed in the clip is ethics of care. After the patient passes away the narrator, who I conclude to be the mother, is informed that she may take as long as she needs and the nurses take actions to comfort her given the situation such as keeping the patients undergarments on. The nurses are respecting the mother’s wishes in regards to the scenario in order to produce the most…

The day started like any other Monday, waking up to the super bright blinding light shining through my window. Ugh how I loathe waking up like this, forcing my eye lids to open up and allow for my sight to kick I only resulting in them sling-shoting shut again. I continue with this common practice for another 20 minutes or so before I rise from my mildly comfortable bed. I'm awake I gather my things and package my iPad and charger. And I head out to my dads truck where I put my bags and return…

Many cases have surfaced involving racial profiling. An abundant number of these cases involved police officers and black “offenders”. People are outraged that so many deaths are happening at the hand, of white cops, are bringing awareness and expressing their views in multiple ways. Some have organized groups against the actions of cops and the reoccurring issues of racial profiling in law enforcement. Others have brought the issue to social media using symbols like “#BlackLivesMatter”, sending…

New Scientist 1). Drug overdoses are a serious matter and need to be handled carefully. They can get everyone else infected depending on what drug they use to hurt themselves. If a police officer or paramedic touches the deceased person, that drug can most likely get on the police officer or paramedic and if they inhale the drug they might have to go to the hospital and get…

Emotional Labor and Crisis Response is relevant to the topic of emergency management. The author does an excellent job in describing real-life situations and how they play role in an emergency manager’s job. With the job of an emergency manager you will face obstacles and you need to learn to not avoid them but rather conquer them. Whether it is from seeing a man dying before your eyes, knowing there is nothing you can do, but giving him hope, or to a detective who is at the scene of a murder a…

centers at medical centers or from television shows in which the cause of injury or death was blunt force trauma. NBC once aired a television shows called Trauma. The show Trauma was based on a group of paramedics in San Francisco, California and the traumatic situations they enouuntered as paramedics. While Webster’s dictionary defines it as "an injury (as a wound) to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent:" It is also defined as "a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from…

The morning of September 11, 2001 has become the tragedy for all Americans. There was a terrorist attack, as four airliners were hijacked by al-Qaeda members. Four suicide attacks were targeted at important objects in the USA. One of the four planes was targeted at Pentagon, another crashed in the field of Pennsylvania, while the two remaining airliners were aimed to attack Twin Towers in New York. After this event, the war broke down that brought changes to the whole society in the USA. If you…

Henderson’s PCO2 is elevated. Under normal conditions, what would be the PRIMARY mechanism that his body would use to reduce the amount of PCO2 in the blood? Why is this mechanism not working in this case? Primary mechanism Mr. Henderson should use to reduce the amount of pCO2 in his blood would be to take fast deep breathes. In his case this would prove to be difficult due to the strain from the hemothorax on his respiratory system . Describe how the high PCO2 and low pH in Mr. Henderson’s…

Imagine having your whole family being humiliated on the internet and there is nothing that can be done about it. This scenario in particular happened to a family in the documentary Lo and Behold: Reveries of a Connected World. In the documentary Werner Herzog examines the digital landscape in the world. The scenario of the tragedy that happens in the documentary is explained the section “The Dark Side”. The Dark Side expresses the bad and horrible effects of the internet, which includes…

Life or Death? A fourteen year old boy was undergoing surgery when his heart suddenly stopped. Otherwise known as cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest is when the heart stops all electrical activity, eventually stopping the heart muscle from contracting. When the heart stops beating, the whole body including the brain does not receive oxygen. If the brain lacks oxygen for, ten to fifteen minutes, there could be permanent brain damage. It is crucial that the heart starts beating or someone starts…