State of emergency

Emergency departments provide twenty-four hour care for life threatening, chronic and acute conditions. However, the increase utilization of emergency departments lead to overcrowding and an increase in the number of individuals that leave without being seen (LWBS) by a physician. “According to a Center for Disease Control and Prevention report on ED use in the United States in 2000, at least 1.8 million patients left emergency departments without being seen” (Johnson et al., 2009). This is a…

My organization, Camp Noah, is a resilience and preparedness day camp that serves elementary age children in communities that have been impacted by disaster and/or crisis. Our mission is to serve children who have been impacted by a traumatic event and/or experience in their own community by engaging and storytelling. The overall problem that our organization works to solve is the uprooting of normalcy and mental impact that the children are experiencing in the long-term recovery stage after a…

that provides preparedness training to emergency responders. In fact, they are the primary trainer of emergency response personnel. Below explains more about the CDP and why they are so important. Overview of the CDP The idea for the CDP originally started within the US. Army Chemical School during the 1950’s. As time went by, both state and federal officials agreed that there should be a federally operated site that provided training to civilian emergency response personal. In the late 1990’s,…

Dr. Dan Hafling, an emergency department physician, researcher, and director of emergency management at Inova Health System states quite simply “until events of Sandy’s magnitude come along, emergency preparedness is just a box that has to be checked” (Begley, 2012). Following the disaster caused by Hurricane Irene, New Jersey hospitals should have been well prepared for any adversity brought by Hurricane Sandy. Though there was an effective and quick reaction towards recovery once the storm had…

With the focus on fire safety and patient care, the Baltimore City Fire Department is one of the leaders in fire protection in the United States. However, as the world changes, the Baby Boomers continue to exceed the senior age of 65, and Millennials reaches parenthood, specific risk starts to emerge. Furthermore, because of these groups being scattered throughout the Baltimore City region, it is essential for the organization to acknowledge the risk and vulnerability to each community they…

Plan: The purpose of the [School Name] Emergency Operations Plan (School EOP) is to provide information on how to respond to emergency incidents by outlining the responsibilities and duties of [School Name] and its employees. This plan has been customized to meet the specific and unique needs, capabilities and circumstances found at [School Name]. No later than the first day of July of each year, the [School Administrator] shall review and certify to the [State] Department of Education that…

are being completely honest the career I had in mind at the beginning of the year was not exactly an emergency physician, it was actually a nuclear and radiological engineer. While yes engineering more closely matches my personality type and newly sparked interest, the title of emergency physician still very much intrigued me. Even though I am still torn between the two I have chosen the Emergency Physician career to further explore in depth. Growing up I always thought I would later pursue a…

reasonably prudent nurse under the same or similar circumstances. Departure from the professional standards of nursing care for the first admission to the emergency department included the following deviations: · Failure to assess Cindy Black comprehensively upon discharge · Failure to assess the patient systematically for the duration of the emergency department…

Question 2 The theoretical relationship between Emergency Operation Center (EOC) and Incident Command System (ICS) are to support the process of incident management. The Incident Command System is a developed concept utilized to help responders provide an organizational structure to combat any level of incident and eliminate jurisdictional boundaries (Incidents Command Systems /Unified Systems,2017). The purpose of the Emergency Operation Center is to support the physical or virtually operating…

I. Purpose, Scope, Situation, and Assumptions A. Purpose of the plan The purpose of this Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) is to construct a comprehensive plan that is valid, structurally organized, easy to follow, and understandable. This EOP is designed to describe the responses of the town of Lexington Kentucky across the entire spectrum of emergency disasters. Its goals aim to mitigate, prepare, respond, and recover: 1. Mitigate: Actively provide the means for the utilization of all…