Mass-casualty incident

In our daily life, emergency situations occur frequently. Places and settings including emergency rooms, intensive care units (ICUs), multi-casualty incidents (for instance car crashes) and mass casualty incidents (including fire outbreak and natural disasters) can all fall under the umbrella of emergency situations [Hoppes 2011]. These circumstances often involve immediate risks to health, life, property, or environment. In most cases, emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent a worsening of the situation, while facing the contradiction between scarce resources and the abundant need for treatment. Triage is a mechanistic system designed to balance the mismatch of need and resources and it is the best and most effective choice for…

recommend bystanders of nearby Involuntary external defibrillators to be used in the case of a cardiac arrest. This ensures each patient receives the best possible medical attention until trained responders arrive often making the difference between life and death. Telecommunicators employ a inclusive variety of skills and technological assets to provide the best service to citizens in necessity. They are trained in mass casualty incident coordination and can communicate with Fire, Police and…

in finding out about casualties, used to feel that casualties were just at the perfect place at the wrong time, and succumbed to a wrongdoer 's fierceness and ravenousness. The investigation of victimology has changed this thought among criminologists and a few exploitation speculations have created. It is currently an acknowledged conviction that the casualty, regularly accidentally, assumes a part in the wrongdoing itself. There are numerous costs required in wrongdoing furthermore in…

What was the scene surrounding the resident who had fallen, was the floor wet, and did the incident occur on carpet or tile? What was the medication that was given to the resident before their falls? What were the vital signs of the resident and did they demonstrate any signs of fatigue or dizziness, or abnormal behaviors (Willy, B., & Osterberg, C., 2014)? Is the staff to staff communication or training an issue? Are the alert systems, wheelchairs, walker, canes, glasses, or hearing aids within…

A few extra things that I can mention about my overall time spent at the ASANTE hospital is that it is very difficult. There are times where I did not know what to do, or who to call to fix certain problems and/or to get extra assistance. For instance, I had an incident where someone threw up all over outside of the South Lobby where I was located, encountered a disfunction with one of the toilets here that had people coming to me over and over to complain to and many angry people who took their…

Service organizations should be attuned to how the nature of services can affect customer rage. Since services occur in real time, the risk of failure is always high. Therefore, it is imperative that organizations take a systematic approach to managing rage incidents. For example, the C.H.A.R.M. School provides lessons in Customer Hostility and Rage Management. Employees learn various identification techniques to spot potential incidents before they happen and plausible tactics to defuse…

I have been asked to create a reflective account on an incident within my HNC work placement where I have had to overcome communication barriers with a patient. My reflection will be structured using Driscoll’s cycle, known as Driscoll (1994) Model of reflection. According to Driscolls cycle there are three processes in which should be used when reflecting on an incident or in general practice. These are what (returning to the situation), so what (understanding the context) and now what…

Safe care needs NP’s to take decisions & actions against situations of risk that threaten the safety of patients and the possible occurrence of incidents that can be from the slightest, that may often go unnoticed, to serious adverse events & consequences which can result in disability, injury, or death. Analyzing incidents in systemic ways based on reflective & systematic models, where errors are investigated from the insecure act of the NP towards decisions at managerial level, replaces a…

direct boss and the alleged harasser. Berkeley claims that the incidents started occurring a few months after the merger. Wharton would stare at her for “several minutes at a time” across the divider…

Unified Command The unified command in the mass incident casualty is a plan that Unification and organized plans and strategies and the same objectives between the agencies so that they can work easily with the incident. Unified Command is a plan that brings together the Incident Commanders of all major agencies involved in the incident to keep the work Organized and to be effective response without affecting agency authorities. Because when each of the agencies work individually it will make a…