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Lincoln and/or Johnson

swearing-in as Vice President" (MrLincolnWhiteHouse.org). In truth, this does not appear to be the actions or thoughts of a man wh...

Primary School Strategic Plan - Draft

not necessarily easy. It is simple in its design because it is very clear what the elements are in plan language. It is not simply...

Medical Emergency Teams (METs)

intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...

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...

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...

Aggressive Behaviors Against Nurses

essential to being able to maintain the necessary nursing workforce and ensuring the delivery of care. These researchers maintain...

INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONSHIPS AND HEALTH CARE

EDs x-rays or MRIs onto the priority list for whatever reason. The result is a lot of misunderstanding between the departments: ED...

Technology Improves Emergency Rooms

their resources and materials but emergency rooms do not seem to be able to keep track of equipment or even patients. One issue we...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

'Emergency' and Indira Gandhi

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

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...

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...

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 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, ...

Providing Comfort in the Emergency Room

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

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...

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 ...

A Historical Analysis of EMTALA

some schools do not receive funding if they hold religious classes for example or do not abide by affirmative action. Similarly, E...

News Broadcast Versus Newspaper: Analysis

that could otherwise not be expressed merely by literary methods; rather, photography helps the world understand more about itself...

Policy Proposal: Preventing Assault

you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...

Reconstruction Efforts and Fire and Emergency Medical Services in Iraq

information necessary to the reconstruction effort. While addressing base emergency services problems will, hopefully, be...

Emergency Department Nursing/Informatics

to undertake shortcuts. Factors such as the urgent care required by ED patients and the fact that many patients are unable to comm...

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...