Incident Management Task 1- Medical Components Logistics The medical unit provides the medical services to the incident personnel. It includes the provision of vaccines, health facilities, vector control, mental health services, and prophylaxis. Furthermore, regarding logistics, the medical unit enables the transportation of the equipment, pharmaceutical drugs, and incident patients to geographical areas where they are safe and taken care (Chan, Killen, Griswold, & Lenert, 2004). It is involved in coordination of personnel and affairs involving the incident personnel fatalities by facilitating their transportation. The Medical Unit Leader then reports to the Logistics Section officer. Inventory Through the Emergency Medical Service created within the Incident …show more content…
To provide so, there is a need for the health system to incorporate information technology (Chan, Killen, Griswold, & Lenert, 2004). Moreover, it should ensure portability and interoperability among different organization and stakeholders involved in solving of a given crisis of the delivery system. This will ensure efficiency in the provision of services to the incident personnel and easy management. There is also need of a triaging unit (Foreign Relations Council, 2009). In so doing, it will ensure that greatest care is given to all ensuring attendance to victims of the incident. However, triage shifts with an increase in the size of the casualties. Hence, it is necessary for the NIMS to enable policies that change with an increase in capacity of the incident. Despite that, triaging has its limitations since it is time-consuming, and has a variability of the user in determining whom to attend to first. An Incident Action Plan should, therefore, be put in place that is concerned with the changing size of the incident, hence, ensuring that effective care is given to
personnel and equipment they have and use to complete their missions. The Civil Support Team
- If all of the options were explored, and patient is given antibiotics and is treated without any pain or suffering than the treatment identifies with the ethnical principles of autonomy, non-maleficence, and veracity. In turn, Mrs. Dawson will be happy with the outcome of the procedure.
They are to assess, evaluate, share and collaborate patient information to other health professionals to maintain quality and safe care delivery (NMBA, 2010). For example, scenario two illustrates an effective collaboration and communication between the nurse and other health professionals (Scenario 2: Leadership and teamwork in medical emergency teams [Scenario 2], 2012). She made recordings of the patient’s health status, and was able to share her analysis to the leader which enabled him to devise a plan and inform the family immediately. Therefore, effective team work is evident in scenario two. They were able to communicate, trust and respect each other’s opinion in which it provided the most appropriate treatment for the patient (Scenario 2: Leadership and teamwork in medical emergency teams [Scenario 2], 2012). On the other hand, in scenario one, the enrolled nurse failed to evaluate and record her assessment regarding patient’s health (Scenario 1: Leadership and teamwork in medical emergency teams [Scenario1],
Gaining a better understanding of what exactly my hospital is dealing with will determine the appropriate course of action. Did the explosion send poisonous chemicals into the air or are the patients simply having a reaction from smoke? As the incident commander on duty it is my responsibility to implement the three key strategies of disaster response; protect and preserve life, stabilize the disaster scene, and protect and preserve property. I will also begin implementation of the hospital’s emergency operation plan. Although I have not yet established the cause of illness in the patients, it is important to treat the incident as a potential mass disaster situation. I will proceed with implementing the “3 C’s” of incident leadership; coordination, communication, and cooperation (Reilly & Markenson, 2011). Effective management of this crisis weighs heavily on my ability to coordinate, communicate, and cooperate not only
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According to the Case Management Society of America, case management is "a collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation, care coordination, evaluation, and advocacy for options and services to meet an individual's and family's comprehensive health needs through communication and available resources to promote quality, cost effective outcomes" (Case Management Society of America [CMSA], 2010). As a method, case management has moved to the forefront of social work practice. The social work profession, along with other fields of study, recognizes the difficulty of locating and accessing comprehensive services to meet needs. Therefore, case managers work with these
A career in triage may seem not too intricate in the medical field but it has its challenges. It is often the behind the scenes work that occur that goes unnoticed. When coordinating care from one facility which has its own mission and protocol of coordinating care to another facility that also has a different policy but with the same goal, situations can get hectic. This is when I, as a liaison for healthcare, network with many constituents to assist with a smoother transition from one system of care to another.
Training should include actual or mock responses by state and federal agencies if the scenario would call for support and mutual aid. The incident command system must be utilized in training and all responders should be familiar with the concepts. ICS is a standardized and flexible management system making it ideal for any incident especially those requiring multi-jurisdictional agency responders to work together (Department of Homeland Security, 2008). The standardization of terms, procedures and command system of ICS dictates that responders are supervised by one supervisor in the chain of command and are delivered specific instructions from one source. All emergency responders nationally should be fully trained and proficient in its application. Agencies from different jurisdictions should have the ability to work together within its guidelines. The flexibility of ICS allows for its use in any incident type or size and it can be expanded or contracted if the incident becomes larger or smaller than
...nt an organizational chart. This allows all personnel to understand what their roles are at time of incident, and whom you communicate sensitive information too. If no direction or communication is given, providing facilities run the risk of victims trying to enter their doors seeking care, which can over exhaust resources and oversaturate hospitals. Therefore, a hospital triage is implemented to assess if patient condition has worsened or remained stable, if there is a need for decontamination process, or if a person seeking assistance is a family member looking for victim. Having these procedures ensures that patients inside the hospital prior to incident are protected for potential harmful exposure to contamination agents and other measures. In addition, hospital and providing facilities are a source of information for victims, the media, and family members.
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Everyday risks present themselves in various workplaces through a variety of situations. Risk managers have been set in place to establish rules and guidelines by which employees are to follow. Any risk manager would agree that programs are set into place to reduce exposure risks, and provide a safe working environment. The elimination of undesirable outcomes in an emergency setting is critical and should not be taken lightly. Medical facility holds the key to important protocols and needs to work closely with risk management in order to instill cooperation.
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss potential disasters that could affect a community and cause mass causalities. Further discussion will include who is responsible for the management preparedness, what barriers must be considered and finally this paper will discuss the health care facilities role in emergency supplies and care of the patient in a disaster situation.
We also have maintenance workers that double as security at the main ER. The pre-hospital emergency services work as an extension of our ERs. They transport patients to and from the ERs, and assist in facilitating quality care to the patients in our communities. For instance, they have the capability to send a 12-lead ECG via fax to the ER to notify of a ST-segment elevation myocardial infarct, often allowing for door to cath lab time to be less than 10 minutes. The main ER also has access to a trauma team, which is a team of hospital staff, including the house supervisor, Intensive Care Unit charge nurse, surgeon, respiratory therapist, lab technician, radiology technician, and chaplain that respond to any moderate or major trauma. Our specialty physicians include orthopedists, pulmonologists, neurologists, pediatricians, cardiologists, psychiatrists, gynecological /obstetricians, otolaryngologists, pain management, hematology/oncologists, and interventional radiologists. Neither ER has full time housekeeping, so the nurses and PCTs are responsible for cleaning rooms and keeping the department clean. Housekeeping is only responsible for cleaning rooms that require specialized treatment, such as isolation
Commonly throughout most countries of the world, citizens of the society at large establish the system for Emergency Medical Services. In the case that the public is not willing or capable of summoning such a service, the country often finds other emergency services, businesses, or the government and authorities who act to employ a system. In other parts of the world, the emergency medical service additionally takes on the role of transporting patients from one medical facility to an alternative one. This occurs with some frequency because once a patient is analyzed and provided care at the immediate hospital; it may be more appropriate for a variety of reasons the patient needs to move to another facility. As one can see, the relat...