State of emergency

provide a brief overview of emergency planning components, and explaining the role of the community health nurse. Health Department Overview Per AVC Communications Inc. (2017), the Guernsey County Health Department holds fast to their mission for improved quality of life…

contact each other in case of emergency. - Write down emergency phone numbers and keep them by the phones, as well as saved in the phone - Have a fire extinguisher in a place where everyone will know where to find it o Make sure everyone knows how to use it - Know where the closest shelter is and how to get to it from multiple routes - Know what the emergency sirens sound like and what to do when they go off in your area. - Have a safe room to store all your emergency supplies and a place that…

Likely the greatest hazard to the greater Spokane, Washington area is wildfire. While the risk to human life is low a wildfires economic cost and the risk of property force this hazard high on the Hazard Vulnerability Analysis’s impact category. The Spokane area is comprised several diverse ecosystems all with different fuels, terrain and weather all impacting the occurrence of fire and the characteristics of a wildfire. Additionally Spokane and the surrounding areas all possess a heavy buildup…

Customs and Border Protection , through Air and Marine Operations (AMO), is responsible for identifying potential air threats to the United States, i.e. aircraft involved in the aerial transit of contraband into the United States. AMO conducts air surveillance operations by detecting, monitoring, and tracking suspect cooperative and non-cooperative aircraft. Surveillance (observation), combined with intelligence, law enforcement case work and open source information, creates air domain…

The article “How to Survive a Disaster” was written by Amanda Ripley who is a senior writer at TIME. Throughout the article she describes different ways on how we as people should be more prepared to surviving disasters. She gives us techniques on how we should act and what we should do if we are unfortunately stuck in the middle of a disaster. She also tells us others people experiences on how they were when they had to deal with a natural disaster. She begins the article on telling us how we…

The question is how would we implement the concepts of the Weather-Ready Nation at the Marquette office? Firstly, one must understand the basic concepts of Weather-Ready nation. The basics boil down to activity inside the office and outside. Inside the office personnel must be trained to work with new ideas, techniques and technology. Impact-based Decision Support Services (IDSS) is one of these concepts. Part of this concept is to develop Better Forecasts and Warnings and extend Forecast…

There are various different Crisis Management Plans in place at Springfield Middle School. The first plan is in the event of a fire. Each classroom has a designated stairwell and exit to use if they need to evacuate the school. The teachers are to bring a class roster with them and make sure all students are present once they find their designated spot outside the building. The attendance clerk is responsible for bring the student enrollment forms outside of the building. There is also a…

When I initially decided to take this class, it was only to fulfil the minimum requirement by UC Davis PA master’s program. All I wanted was a job where I could quickly obtain patient experience hours. This all changed by the end of the first week of class. Something about the radiated enthusiasm and passion of the instructor and student assistants, brought me to a different place. I didn’t expect this, I only signed up for EMS 111 because I didn’t get into the phlebotomy course the previous…

Bangladesh is vulnerable to a variety of hydro-meteorological hazards. Approximately, 45 damaging cyclones were reported in the coastal areas of Bangladesh from 1793 to May 1997; therefore the cyclone recurrent period becomes 4.5 years (Shamsuddoha M and Chowdhury R.K, 2007). Hasan. A et al (2013) identified the decadal distributions of cyclones that hit Bangladesh. Source: (Hasan. A et al 2013) Cyclones generally form in Indian Ocean and due to ‘Coriolis Effect’ and the funnel shape…

prompted me to enter college as a pre-medical student, my experiences volunteering in the medical field have strengthened my conviction to become a doctor and have shown me how rewarding the field of medicine is. I have worked in clinics as well as emergency rooms and have observed doctors and patients in both settings. I have seen how through the help of a caring doctor, patient’s become at ease and how a patient doctor relationship can become a strong bond that lasts for many years. The…