Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning Definition Disaster: is a natural or man-caused event that damages property and assets‚ injures or kills people‚ and impairs the ability for organizations to continue operating. Business Continuity Planning: is the set of activities required to ensure the continuation of critical business processes when a disaster occurs. Disaster Recovery Planning: is the set of activities concerned with the assessment‚ salvage‚ repair‚ and restoration of
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT CYCLE The disaster cycle or the disaster life cycle consists of the steps that emergency managers take in planning for and responding to disasters. Each step in the disaster cycle correlates to part of the ongoing cycle that is emergency management. This disaster cycle is used throughout the emergency management community‚ from the local to the national and international levels. Preparedness The first step of the disaster cycle is usually considered to be preparedness although
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com/2011/05/03/personal-financial-planning-improves-standard-of-living/ Personal financial planning improves standard of living Posted on May 3‚ 2011‚ Tuesday “Personal financial planning is essential if we want to improve our standard of living‚ minimise the likelihood of financial disasters‚ invest optimally‚ and accumulate sufficient wealth over time‚” said Professors of finance‚ Dr Koh Seng Kee and Dr Fong Wai Mun in their book‚ “Personal Financial Planning.” Primary goal of financial planning In this personal
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Lewis: Medical-Surgical Nursing‚ 8th Edition Chapter 69: Nursing Management: Emergency‚ Terrorism‚ and Disaster Nursing Key Points – Printable CARE OF EMERGENCY PATIENT * Triage refers to the process of rapidly determining the acuity of the patient’s problem. It works on the premise that patients who have a threat to life must be treated before other patients. * The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a five-level triage system that incorporates concepts of illness severity and resource
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During 2016 Ms. Noble has been an active member of the SNS Disaster Response Team and is always willing to assist with special request. When complaints from clients and or their families are brought to Ms. Noble’s attention she handles those complaints appropriately. She is consistent in notifying upper level management when issues arise. She assures that appropriate action is taken when there is a need for protective services. She makes herself available for assessor team staff to come to her
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and why the hospital emergency department sometimes used for nonurgent conditions. | The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act‚ better known as EMTALA was developed due to the concern that patients that could not pay would be denied emergency medical treatment. This law confronted the hospitals that were allegedly transferring‚ discharging‚ or refusing to treat patients who did not have insurance. To protect these patients‚ the 1986 signed law required emergency facilities to must screen
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The role of Technology and Collaboration in an Effective Emergency Response Technology plays an important role in making emergency response decision. Technology is used to receive necessary information and data needed to implement an effective emergency response plan. Collaboration among communities also has an impact on the effectiveness and success on the implementation of emergency response plan. People in communities and businesses in technology can help control and can contain the infectious
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT This chapter provides an overview that describes the basic types of hazards threatening the United States and provides definitions for some basic terms such as hazards‚ emergencies‚ and disasters. The chapter also provides a brief history of emergency management in the federal government and a general description of the current emergency management system—including the basic functions performed by local emergency managers. The chapter concludes
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series of natural disasters‚ most notably the Indian tsunami‚ the earth quakes in Gujarat‚ India and Kashmir‚ Pakistan‚ the September 11 2004 terrorist attacks on the United States and Hurricane Katarina‚ Cyclone Nargis in Burma‚ and the Sichuan earth earthquake in China (Coppola & Maloney 2009). Reports indicate that individuals and communities struggled to cope in the aftermath of these and many other emergencies and endured a high risk of exposure to the consequences of these disasters which affected
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What Is A Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT)? The National Response Framework (NRF) utilizes the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS)‚ as part of the Department of Health & Human Services‚ Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR)‚ Office of Preparedness and Operations (OPEO)‚ under Emergency Support Function #8 (ESF #8)‚ Health and Medical Care‚ to provide victim identification and mortuary services. These responsibilities include: temporary morgue facilities
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