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ER Care and How It Should be Paid

The Clinton health care plan did address this issue. The proposal encompassed a plan where expenses would be shared by a larger gr...

Contemporary ER

In six pages this paper examines modern day hospital emergency room departments. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Hurricanes and Disaster Preparedness

The news media is a necessary addition to the planning and regulatory agencies. It will be the medias job to make the public awar...

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...

Fire Inquiry Design Regarding an Offshore Platform Fire Investigation

In five pages this report presents the inquiry and process of a fire investigation regarding an offshore oil platform's design fla...

School Preparedness, Premature Births, and Babies with Low Birth Weight

In twenty four pages this research paper analyzes the observation 'Low birth weight or premature birth results in school problems'...

Hospital Emergency Departments

in funding for long-term care will have had a devastating impact on women, minorities, and children. Patterns of Use According to...

'The NY-911 Demonstration Project' and NYPD Data Collection

In twenty six pages this report discusses the 911 emergency services of the New York City Police Department in terms of its implem...

Natural Disasters and Emergency Planning

In five pages natural disasters are examined within the context of business strategies and emergency planning measures. Five sour...

Cities, Towns, and Emergency Services

a victim whereas a community member who is friends with him, will make that extra effort. Bruegman (1997) contends that while peop...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Incident Debriefing

actually felt the building shake, for example, are at the most risk for the disorder (2001). At the same time, one psychologist cl...

ER Application of the Self Care Deficit Theory Developed by Dorothea Orem

Emergency rooms are, at least in many cases, the primary health care provider to the underinsured and uninsured patient (Isenstein...

Effects of Bioterrorism Upon Emergency Medical Technicians

This delays their psychological reaction. After a disaster ends and normal routine starts, there is often an intense period when ...

New Jersey's Health Care Delivery System and Its Problems

governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...

EMT Procedures Assessed

In six pages this paper assesses the physical and academic qualifications necessary to become an Emergency Medical Technician. Se...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Emergency Medical Response System Business Plan

and the need for emergency medical help is growing. Since health care professionals will be volunteers, there is no need for large...

Katrina, Rita, and FEMA's Response in 2005

funds many short-term solutions a. Provides grants for needs such as truck rental for those who cannot pay for it. b. Directs thos...

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...