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An Article on Families in the ER Critiqued

and fear and engenders feelings of support and help for the patient " (MacLean, et al, 2003). In regards to negative outcomes, fam...

Providing Comfort in the Emergency Room

charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...

Australian Duty of Care/Emergency Services

or her field of duty is encompassed by the law of the Northern Territory of Australia, specifically the Personal Injuries (Liabili...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

Terrorism Preparedness, Travis County, Texas

Balcones Escarpment, with the land to the west being more arid than the country to the east; the vegetation varies accordingly, ra...

An Overview of FEMA

1959). The total destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Andrew, considered to be historys worst in terms of death and damage, ...

ER Personnel and Problems of Violence

of the ED staff members had been threatened by a weapon; 55 hospitals (43%) reported that a physical attack on a staff member occu...

Concepts of Emergency Management

appropriate policies and procedures (Bechtel et al, 2000). The belief here is that creating a plan to encompass events that are li...

Emergency Management

specifically designed for such an occurrence. What is the single most important aspect of emergency management falls into category...

Advantages and Disadvantages of Emergency Vehicle Lights and Sirens

on the number of accidents caused by emergency vehicles. The points these opponents make are indeed valid. Emergency veh...

Departures vs. Emergency, Similar Themes

mothers feelings. Nevertheless, he never rectifies this error and remains increasingly more aloof from human concerns and true car...

Ethics and Legalities of Health Care

to believe that his strategy for paying the hospitals bill for treatment to be a sound one. He had sued the local trolley line (a...

1996 Study on Emergency Situations and Clinical Decision Making

picture" and not miss crucial details that can lead to positive patient outcomes is a question that has been addressed, to some ex...

Issues of Emergency Response Disaster Management

minds of many - if not most - Americans was a part of the ongoing feud between religious factions in the mideast that occasionally...

Resources Relating to Cardiac Emergencies

Coronary artery disease is the number one killer in the United States (Sullivan and Sullivan, 1997). Indeed, an acute myocardial ...

NP role in EDs/Study Article Critique

and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...

Study Proposal/Will Placing an NP in EDs Help Overcrowding?

concerns the how NP practice has been implemented in countries other than the US. The majority of research articles available in v...

Medical Ethics (Case Study Analysis)

see two broken femurs without any explanation whatsoever. Also, in the hospital, no one is asking why the child may have broken bo...

Plan B/Political Issues & Emergency Contraception

a birth control method is believed to have failed (Chung-Park, 2008). There are several types of EC available in the US, but the m...

Pharmacists Ethics

senior citizens (Editors, 2006). An overwhelming majority of more than 800 pharmacists surveyed said that it was their responsibil...

Emergency Response and Fire Prevention Plan

any conditions including total darkness or thick smoke. This requires that the signs have their own backup power systems that wil...

California’s Emergency Response Plan

the state from the federal level (OES mission statement, 2007). In order to accomplish this mission, OES uses various programs a...

California: Emergency Response by Law Enforcement at State and Federal Levels

(Ghilarducci and Guerin, 1999). SEMS incorporates the following: the "Incident Command System," which is the "field level" respo...

SEMS Management Function

be followed (Office of Emergency Services, 2007). That list has three major phases that beings with activation, moving on to the a...

Personal Emergency Response Systems/Patient Outcomes

of four (Bernstein, 2000). Its use also reduces hospitalizations by 59 percent and yields a benefit to cost ratio of seven to one,...

NATIONAL RESPONSE FRAMEWORK AND EMERGENCY SUPPORT FUNCTIONS

step in and provide more support (National Response Framework, 2009). The Framework itself is an 81-page booklet describing everyt...

ANALYSIS OF FLORIDA'S EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN

The above is similar to any comprehensive emergency plan that might be found in any other state. But Florida also introduces a haz...

Earthquakes A Catastrophic Emergency

The USGS provides a list of the most destructive earthquakes that have ever been recorded. The most recent earthquakes...

A Comparison of the Writings of Rachel Carson and Al Gore

Effecting changes in environmental policies and the types of human behavior and mindsets that cause adverse...

Article Summary/Veenema (2008)

The American Red Cross, after an extensive peer review of the program, which was conducted in 2006, adopted Veenemas curriculum as...