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EMTs and Stress

a paid position. Even -- and especially -- at the highest level, all EMTs are to take periodic refresher courses to maintain both...

The Dangers of "Ordinary Construction"

fires to "spread into concealed spaces" running either horizontally or vertically (Dunn). The largest concealed space in an ordin...

Firefighter Deaths

(FoxNews, 2007). Apparently, according to the study cited, firefighters experience the same poor health conditions seen in...

The Occupation of a Firefighter

Degree. For most fire departments, the minimum required education is a high school diploma, with the passage of a written entranc...

Safety Practices Not Followed by Firefighters

things get done and how, it is the personality of the organization. This firehouse has lapsed into a culture based on competition ...

Emergency Medical Personnel and PTSD

that are now associated with post traumatic stress disorder (National Center for PTSD, 2000). It was called Da Costas Syndrome in ...

Search Teams and Rapid Intervention in Fire Safety

This paper addresses the practices of rapid intervention and search teams in insuring the safety of both firefighters and civilian...

Hazardous Material Issues and Firefighter Safety

assumption that major emergencies are merely larger-scale versions of the types of incidents that occur each day can create breakd...

Bioterrorism and Hazardous Materials

such as ease of production, infectivity, toxicity, and ability to retain aerosol dissemination are taken into account, the list na...

Relations Between Firefighters and Labor Management

In fifteen pages the significance of relations between labor and management that are supported are illustrated in a hypothetical ...

Race and Gender Issues Among Firefighters

This research paper addresses the experiences of minority and women firefighters within the United States' various fire department...

Nursing Community Services, Asthma & Diabetes

do not have their inhaler with them or it is "forgotten, lost or empty when needed" (Bryne, Schreibr and Nguyen 335). Without this...

Osterias in Italy

osterias are "generally unwilling to divulge the secrets of family recipes" (Vallone). Another source gives us more information, ...

Project Management Institute

PMI, s/he has a framework of support. PMI History PMI was founded in 1969 with a meeting in Atlanta between active project ...

The "Ideal" Health Care Organization Structure

rather than the reverse. The mission of this generic health care organization is to provide "comprehensive health services of the...

Humanity and Divinity of the Christian Church

wanted only man as His own: God, Who has fatherly concern for everyone, has willed that all men should constitute one family and ...

Serving a Volleyball and its Kinesiology

spin in a particular movement (Hudson 54). Kinesiology is an area of study that considers the developmental sequences that defi...

Executing the Condemned by Cruxifixion

Crucifixion as a means of execution served a number of purposes in the ancient world. This paper discusses the origin of the pract...

Tennis Serve Biomechanics

are supported by specific skeletal structures and musculature. Range of motion within the outlining of the tennis swing is not on...

Great and Middle Level Power Leadership from 1927 until 1939 Assessed

of any type of war was even more unattractive than ever before. The appeasement position was reinforced by the government of Edua...

Assimilation Barriers

into his own. Although racism persists today, it is nowhere near the problem it was during the 1960s and 1970s of which Aschenbren...

Is Community Policing a Shaky Proposition?

been stretched into prevention efforts. Based on a wide range of viewpoints and actual criminal activity within each of th...

Aspects That Make Good Communities

find help through federal programs, although there are problems of access within these systems. If the federal or state government...

Internet and European Community Competition Rules

recognize that economic strength goes hand in hand with political change (Sutherland, 1997), it is also important to understand th...

Definition and Examples of Virtual Communities

formation of a virtual community may occur in many environments and as a result of many different pull factors, from entertainmen...

Student Question on a Person's Obligation to Obey Community Law

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

Racism Experiences in Post World War II Great Britain and the Black Community's Responses

black people choosing to leave the country. Post-War Race Relations The post-war immigration in the late 1940s and 1950s in...

Analysis of an Article on Community Assessment

In five pages the article 'Can You Do A Community Assessment Without Talking to the Community?' is analyzed in terms of authors' r...

Community Obesity and Health Promotion

his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a ...

Perfect Society, Labor, and Justice

In his article on "Distributive Justice" (in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy), author Julian Lamont points out that in the...