Running Head: Disaster in Franklin County Disaster in Franklin County JM Western Governors University 1 Disaster in Franklin County 2 The Role of Health Personnel and the Public Health Nurse Public health personnel and public health nurses have many responsibilities in a disaster that are essential to a successful outcome for the community. Their primarily focus is on the safety and health of the public. The health personnel will assess the community’s available resources
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Proposal Assessment Process & Need Statement Princess Childs BSHS/452 March 25‚ 2013 Jennifer Albrecht Proposal Assessment Process & Need Statement Children have been abused and neglected in the past and it is still going on now. This has become a well known problem. “According to NCANDS whose latest statistics are for 2005 an estimated 3.3 million referrals of child abuse or neglect were received by public social services or CPS agencies. Of these referrals‚ 899‚000” kids “were
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health personnel and the public health RN in a disaster: The major role of the public health personnel in a disaster is to oversee safety in the community. There are many needs of the community during a time of crisis including meeting basic survival needs such as food‚ water and shelter. The public health personnel oversee the crisis from start to finish. Some of the public health personnel included the fire chief‚ emergency response and public works safety officer. The role of the public health
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NATURAL DISASTERS Whitewater Rafting Whitewater rafting enthusiasts row or paddle rubber rafts down turbulent‚ fast-running rivers. Rafting trips can be short day trips or longer trips that involve camping alongside the river at night. Encarta Encyclopedia Energy Productions/The Image Bank Amazon River The Amazon River in South America is one of the longest rivers in the world. Only the Nile River in Africa is longer. Encarta Encyclopedia Claudia Parks/The Stock
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the outcome is I’m proud of you and how far you have came in life.” That was our last win together and I will never forget what he told me. Coach Hastings had a positive effect on my life because he taught me how to be a leader‚ give back to the community‚ and never give up on what I want to do. To be a leader is more than just telling someone what to do. Coach taught me that being a leader is about respecting everyone around you‚ making sure you’re always doing the right thing even when no one
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Natural disasters and human emergencies are recurring phenomenon’s that leave disastrous effects in their wake. On 12th January 2010‚ a major earthquake of a 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale hit Haiti. The catastrophic quake centred about 15 miles South West of Port-au-Prince left considerable damage to a majority of towns in the country including the capital city. According to UN reports‚ of the total 9 million people in the country‚ the earthquake has affected half of the population. About 222
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My reflection is on a teaching session of nasogastric feeding to a second year student. One of the patient I looked after was fed via a nasogastric tube. My student had told me she had never set up a feed via a nasogastric tube. I saw this as a learning opportunity for her. In order for me to teach my student effectively‚ it was important to establish her preferred learning style. Honey & Mumford (1992) identify four distinct learning styles e:g 1. Activist‚ are those people that learn by doing
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Disaster Recovery Planning Disaster recovery planning can best be defined as an organization’s procedures for continuing operations in the event of the destruction of program and data files‚ as well as processing capability. In the case of any disaster or incident that causes a stop in the continuing work‚ businesses must be prepared with a business continuity plan‚ or a way to resume the activities required to keep your organization running during a period of displacement or interruption
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this situation pollution is a murderer. As human beings we are well intentioned and have our hearts in the right place‚ however human error has played a devastating role on our planet. There have been several oil spills however the most harmful disaster was the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill on April 20th‚ 2010 until July 15th 2010. For a total of 87 days more then 200 million gallons of oil was forced into the Gulf of Mexico‚ which made it
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I personally feel as if school is not actually teaching us anything. School is set up to where you take numerous test every single week studying to remember information for those test. It’s all about memorization‚ I feel like we as students don’t actually take in and understand the information we’re being taught. We just study so that the topic is in on our brain for the test‚ and after the test is over its gone and replaced with new information week in and week out. Half of the things they teach
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