Running head: BOARDING PATIENTS IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT 1 Boarding Patients in the Emergency Department Lauren Wiese University of Scranton BOARDING PATIENTS IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT 2 Abstract A patient who is boarded is one who remains in the emergency department even after they have been admitted to the hospital. Boarding patients in the emergency department has become a problem for many hospitals in America today. It has affected the health and safety of
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Your Emergency Alert System As a business owner‚ you want to secure your investments – not just the business itself‚ but your properties and people as well. Knowing how important it is to have an emergency preparedness plan‚ you do your research and get the emergency alert system that you think will best serve your specific needs. However‚ getting the most updated notification tool is not all there is to emergency preparedness; you must also take action to get the best out of your emergency alert
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Emergency Care Nursing Emergency rooms are known for their long waits and lack of competent staff. Over the past years emergency care departments have revamped their systems in order to correct these flaws. A leading factor in this change is the presence of more nursing staff on the floor of the emergency room. Nurses have gone from having little power when it comes to patient diagnoses‚ to running their own non-life-threatening treatment facilities. Without these men and women emergency care
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Emergency Management in the Granite State Crisis and Emergency Management Introduction The state of New Hampshire remains extremely unique in developing a proper plan for Crisis and Emergency Management to protect the citizens and state property from the potential vulnerabilities. New Hampshire has an extremely unique geography that features numerous mountain ranges‚ lakes‚ and maintains an extensive coastline along the Atlantic Ocean. The state of New Hampshire also maintains the Seabrook
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The emergency preparedness and disaster planning involve a coordinated effort between various organizations who coordinate a plan of action. They delegate resources to target areas that need immediate attention. This is a strategic process that communicates with the state‚ local‚ federal‚ media and police departments to help assist in a major disaster. OSHA has a written plan that outlines the resources and preparedness that is needed during a disaster. All parties involved must comply with the order
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Emergency Management When an emergency happens‚ it is best to be prepared and understand where to go and how to arrive there. Most people will go to his or her local hospital to seek assistance‚ whereas some may be brought to the facility by an emergency vehicle. In any case emergency management needs to know what he or she needs to do to protect their community and themselves. Emergency management (EM) entails An emergency is the unplanned events that cause harm and death and can happen within
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3.1: Identify what accidents‚ incidents and emergency situations may occur? Missing child: a child would wonder off and leave the premises without anyone realising. If this happens‚ the setting procedures must to be followed which will include reporting the missing child to the line manager immediately‚ searching the premises and informing the police and parents in necessary. Aggressive behaviour of a child: I child could became very upset and starts to throw things and attack other children or adults
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CHAPTER 2 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STAKEHOLDERS This chapter will introduce the many actors in emergency management and examine some of the problems inherent in dealing with the complex emergency management policy process. The first section will address four basic issues. First‚ how is a “stakeholder” defined‚ especially in the context of emergency management? Second‚ who are the stakeholders emergency managers should be concerned about? Third‚ at what level in the system and by which different stakeholders
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Malayan Emergency The Malayan emergency was the conflict that occurred shortly after the end of the second world war in British Malaya from June 1948 till July 1960 between the British and her allies against Chinese Malay communists. this conflict is considered one of the most effective anti-communist campaigns‚ modern guerilla warfare campaigns but‚ most importantly the first contemporary use of the ’hearts and minds ’ strategy. The origins of this war can be seen with British colonial actions
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Emergency Department Triage Triage is an essential element of providing care to patients who present at a hospital emergency department. Triage is defined as a brief clinical assessment that determines the time and sequence in which patients should be seen in the emergency department. During triage‚ an emergency department nurse interviews a patient or the patient’s representative about the medical problem causing concern‚ makes a brief evaluation of the patient‚ and takes the patient’s vital signs
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