Tavaski Gordon March 7‚ 2014 HS 256 Unit 5 Paper Disaster Response A disaster brings violence‚ terror‚ and trauma‚ to all who experience its wrath and devastation. Destruction and suffering is the entertainment that disasters provide to its audience‚ through a campaign of psychological and physical damage. According to the fields of disaster psychiatry and disaster psychology‚ a disaster is a major ecological and psychosocial destruction that far exceeds the coping ability of a disaster
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Adverse Trends in the Emergency Department Lori Davis HCS/482 April 21‚ 2014 Lynn Bertsch It is no secret that the wait times and length of stay for patient’s within the Emergency Department (ED) has steadily increased over the past several years. With that‚ comes adverse events affecting all patients alike. According to Weston (2013)‚ “Falls and delays to treatment are the major contributors to serious and sentinel events” (pg. 33). Data collection has now been utilized to capture
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There are two distinct models of disability that seek to empower those with disabilities- the medical model and the social model. The medical model refers to a disability as a “physical or mental impairment of the individual and its person with social consequences. It regards the limitations faced by people with disabilities as resulting primarily‚ or solely‚ from their impairments” Wasserman et al (2011). Under the medical model people are defined by their illness or medical condition. The medical
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problems or even have shown signs of neglect or abuse towards the child. One type of place a child could go to in these situations is foster care. There are many types of foster care. For example‚ emergency foster care this is when a child is in need of a safe environment to stay for a few nights. Emergency foster care is important because it’s a quick process and can be arranged in short notice meaning if a parent goes into hospital and no one else is able to care for the child then they will be placed
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Introduction Tele-nursing is the use of telecommunications technology such as videos‚ computers and tele-monitoring technologies to provide nursing care and advice at a distance. This growing technology offers many advantages in the delivery of healthcare information‚ disease monitoring‚ health promotion and disease prevention services‚ as well as nursing diagnosis‚ treatment and education to patient at home from a centralized location. Tele-nursing can be instrumental in helping patients
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Nursing Shortage and Nursing Turnover Nursing shortage is a phenomenon that is affecting nurses and the provision of adequate patient care in today’s health care industry. Nursing shortage is said to occur when the demand for employment of nurses is far greater than the number of nurses willing to be employed at that time (Huber‚ 2010). According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (A.A.C.N.)‚ “the nursing shortage is expected to increase as baby boomers age‚ and the need for health
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Integration of biomedical devices for continuous‚ real time and automated patient monitoring emergency system System objectives Emergency medical situations require responders to effectively care for patients with limited personnel and medical infrastructure‚ often under intense time pressure. In large-scale medical emergencies‚ emergency medical service (EMS) officers coordinate ambulatory transportation for victims‚ while relying heavily on information from responders in the field. EMS may
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Australia (NMBA) both recognise that good record keeping is required to provide safe‚ high-quality health care (MBA‚ 2014; NMBA‚ 2008‚ 2014). Clinical documentation reflects the assessment of the patient‚ the clinical findings‚ the plan‚ patient’s response and outcome of care (Heartfield‚ 1996; Jeffries‚ Johnson‚ & Griffiths‚ 2010). Accurate documentation is seen not only as a record of patient care (Rodden‚ & Bell‚ 2002) but also as an essential means of communication to other health professionals
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Rules sometimes need to be broken. Which view are you in closer argument with and why? Make it argumentative and discuss your view point only. Rules‚ rules rules. Every day‚ we live with rules. We follow rules‚ we break rules. And there’s a saying‚ “Rules are meant to be broken.” Agree? I just wonder what life is without rules. Everyone would be doing crimes all over the place. One day you might just wake up and see all your stuff in your house is gone. Report to the police? There are no rules
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Should I Stay Or Should I Go? “You’re 18 years old‚ now move out.” For some teenagers coming of age‚ this is one of the first things they hear after blowing out candles on there birthday. But is 18 years old to young? I had to make a choice‚ either move out as soon as possible after finally being able to buy lighters‚ or stay home for a while and go to college. In the article “Generation Debt” by Anya Kamenetz‚ the author states that “...five milestones of maturity are: leaving home‚ finishing
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