of. However‚ police officers encounter frequent exposure to unpredictable incidents that pose a threat to their life or the physical integrity. These events can lead to the development of acute stress disorder (ASD) or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Marchand‚ Nadeau‚ Beaulieu-Prevost‚ Boyer and Martin‚ 2015). Police officers and first responders see so many things in a given day that the general public can not even fathom. From abused children‚ abused spouses‚ drug overdoses‚ animal cruelty
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Tort of Negligence Damage and Injury In order for a claim of tortuous liability in negligence to be actionable‚ primarily‚ certain fundamental pre-requisites need to be established in each case respectively. The requirements of the modern tort of negligence were stated by Lord Wright in‚ Lochgelly and Coal Co ltd v McMullan‚ as being‚ i) the existence of a duty of care owed by the defendant to the claimant; ii) a breach of that duty; iii) damage or injury caused by that breach of duty. Each aforesaid
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Running head: SUICIDE RATE OF FIREFIGHTERS DUE TO JOB-RELATED Suicide Rate of Fire-Fighters due to Job-Related Stress Brenda Bell-Smith Barry University Public Safety PUB 409 Dr. Smith Jun 25‚ 2008 Suicide Rate of Fire-Fighters due to Job-Related Stress Few individuals realize the gravity of depression in another human’s life. For some‚ the state of being depressed is a choice‚ and a person can easily “snap out of it” if only they would think positively and cut all the drama. Depression
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Do you have Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome? African Americans today are still suffering from the disgusting horrors of slavery. One woman‚ author Cindy George‚ wrote “Do you have Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome?” Published in 2015 on Ebony magazine‚ and she suggest that the way African American people respond to racial events may go back to harrowing treatment of our enslaved ancestors. George begins building on recent events such as Eric Garner who was choked to death by a police officer on camera
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Introduction: Circumstances Leading to PTSD Diagnosis In the middle of the night‚ I wake up frequently due to a reemerging night terror. I experience this nightmare an average of three times per week. I awaken startled‚ sweating profusely‚ and out of breath. It is a reoccurring nightmare of the evening that my college roommate was badly beaten by two people in our dorm room parking lot. The dream is always the same and very similar to the exact real life incident that I had experienced. I am watching
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Running head: COMPASSION FATIGUE 1 Compassion Fatigue: A Concept Analysis A Paper Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for NU 506 Theoretical Foundations of The practice of nursing is synonymous with the concepts of empathy‚ compassion‚ nurturing‚ and caring. In the last two decades‚ a global nursing shortage has developed‚ leading to a phenomenon in nursing never seen before; the delivery of nursing care without nurturing. Increased workloads‚ higher patient acuity‚
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Gabriel Ruiz 4/26/12 Paramedic Paramedic’s takes hard work and patience‚ people say it’s not easy becoming a paramedic you need the right education and you must acquire a specific skill. A paramedic makes a good amount of money enough to pay the bills and still have some money left over. Being a paramedic requires people’s lives to be in your hands at times and to be able to handle yourself under pressure. This essay will consist of the requirements
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about how the paramedics. After reading this article Paramedics are taught not to risk their lives after the mass shootings‚ they are talking about that paramedics staying back out of the hot zones because it is to dangers for them after a mass shooting. In Columbine school shooting in Littleton‚ Colo in 1999‚ and the paramedics would not go in to save lives unless the swat team has cleared the place before they went in only because they don’t want more people hurt. As being a paramedic they should
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EMS system that answers around 130‚000 calls a year‚ with 70% being Emergency Medical Services (EMS) related making EMTs and Paramedics the backbone of the department. There is around 1‚100 employees with 20% of those employees being paramedics. The function of a paramedic is to provide advance medical care to critically injured and ill patients who utilize 911. Paramedics possess complex knowledge and skills in order to conduct proper patient assessment‚ use diagnostic tools‚ then devise a proper
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This case study will discuss Amphetamine use and misuse in the community setting‚ the impact of the substance use and misuse on contemporary paramedic practice and provide a guideline for the patients using this substance and the community in dealing with this issue. | Contents Introduction 3 Body 3 Amphetamines 3 Case Analysis 4 Case Remedies 5 Conclusion 6 References 8 Introduction There is lot of expanded scope roles in the field of medical‚ nursing and paramedical which is
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