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Enhancing Total Quality Management at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam

quite a leap to effectively apply its principles to service industries, but TQM is as much at home in health care as it is in manu...

Health Outcomes in the Inner Cities

in 2001 (Griggs and Bazie, 2002). The median household income dropped across the board, including all racial-ethnic groups with t...

Natural Disaster Aftermath and Transporting Clean Water to Those in Need

dependent they are on easy access to clean water until something prevents that access. The Impact of Natural Disasters Informati...

Communication Barriers to Emergency Medical Services to Homeless, Transsexuals, and Prostitutes

In the Metro Toronto area, over 5,350 homeless people try and fit into the limited homeless spaces available in the hostel system ...

Confidentiality Issues and Nursing Ethics

he could use public transportation to visit his parents nearby town. In short, the argument that Mr. Paul depends on his dr...

'Emergency' and Indira Gandhi

that one might readily argue how this particular occurrence was almost predicable. Upon her 1971 election, Gandhis campaign cente...

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...

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...

Departures vs. Emergency, Similar Themes

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

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...

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 ...

Emergency Management

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

Major Indicators of Performance and Call Centers

attitude, recourse is immediate by simply hanging up and calling another company. Call centers cannot afford to lose potential cl...

Hospital Emergency Department and Supply Chain Management

platform that could standardize procurement. Thus, there was no way to assure each emergency department was paying the guaranteed ...

Multivictim Situations and an Intervention Study

programs have changed in recent years and whether important events, including the events surrounding the September 11 bombing of t...

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...

January 2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 Crash

the planes horizontal stabilizer trim shortly before the crash and had been diverted to from its initial destination of San Franci...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

Points Pertaining to Emergency Preparedness

This research paper, in an outline format, provides information on emergency law enforcement, communication and medical services, ...

Chlorine Spill, the Graniteville, SC Train Wreck

This research paper concerns a train wreck that took place in Graniteville, SC in 2005. The paper gives an overview of what occurr...

Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101, FEMA

This paper illustrates points pertaining to APA referencing using the Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101, published by the...

Treatment Sequence for Attending to an Unconscious Patient with Suspected Poisoning

Treating non responsive patients presents challenges. This paper looks at the approach to treatment and sequence which should be u...

2009 Fargo Floods and Emergency Management

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at emergency management. Effective strategies are pointed out by looking at the 2009 F...