The Cleveland Emergency Medical Services “EMS”, refused to render aid to a man that had been shot sixteen times. The article is of interest to me as I find it hard to believe that folks who are professionals, paid to serve victims, could very well neglect a victim, in the grave condition as this person who was shot 16 times and would probably die without professional help. The article describes a scene in Cleveland, Ohio where Cleveland police responds to an emergency call of multiple gunshots being fired and possible victims being wounded. Officers arrive at the scene of the crime only find that the victim was hit and was driving away from the scene. Nevertheless, the victim is found a few blocks away with multiple gunshot wounds, later …show more content…
Cleveland EMS is under investigation for their actions and their original response of not being able to render aid outside of a specific area is being heavily questioned. There is a Cleveland EMS directive date from November 2013 that states “a unit may travel outside of the Cleveland boundaries while transporting a patient to a hospital or while in response to a call.”
The ideal of an emergency agency with all the proper resources not giving aid to a helpless victim is mind boggling, and their reasons are weak at best. Moreover, I began to wonder are there any underlying issues, why the EMS unit would not respond. We do not know what has transpired in the past, or are there race issues or bad blood between the different boundaries around the city, only a thorough investigation will get to the root cause of the incident. Consequently, there should be no excuses for something as horrific as this incident to ever happen again. The principal concept of autonomy that permit and encourage others to act rationally along with the principal of lawfulness, not to violate the law were not upheld by the EMS workers in my
Throughout history there has been considerable tension between race and crimes committed. The court trial of Bernhard Goetz initiated debate on race and crime in the major cities, and the limitations of self-defense. Bernhard Goetz in 1984 shot five bullets in a New York City subway, seriously wounding four young black men. After turning himself into the police nine days later, the public now knew who was the shooter. Bernhard Goetz was entitled the “Subway Vigilante”. The subway shooting incident ideally exemplified the exasperation with the high crime rates of the 1980s. Due to the time period that this incident occurred, Bernhard Goetz was commended and reviled in the media surrounding the case, and the public’s standpoint. The subway shooting, and the court trial following the shooting, lead to the uprise of the fight against crime in major cities. Justice is difficult to define, and in controversial acquittal of Bernhard Goetz, justice in this sense, was not served.
Into the Kill Zone: A Cop’s Eye View of Deadly Force, by David Klinger, explores the effects that shooting a deadly weapon will have on law enforcement officers. The author interviews over eighty men and women from a number of police agencies spread across four states. He conducts these interviews to note the pre and post mental conceptions police officers have after shooting a gun in the line of duty. Klinger shares his interviewees’ stories in the novel to show readers how pulling the trigger of a gun can cause a variety of issues both within and outside of a police officer’s life.
On the program The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, a developing story talks about the event in Virginia where a 46 year old man, Linwood Lambert, is tased multiple times by police officers. This report starts off with mentioning that the man was picked up early one morning after multiple 911 calls about noise complaints. After the police officers picked him up the officers realized that he seemed to be acting strange so they decided to take him to a local hospital for a mental health evaluation. The officers stated that he made comments about “murdering two people and putting their bodies in the ceiling”. Once at
... article called In a Split Second, a Life-or-Death Decision was just finished organizing officers for an investigation when a fire fight broke out in the street. Two men on a crosswalk trapped and shot at another man also in the street. Bill hid behind a car and called the police while the men tried to get away. He followed the car they drove to an alley where he soon realizes was where they hid their guns. The guns were retrieved and one man arrested, the other got away. He had his gun ready and thought he could shoot the men, but decided that he would call for help and pursue the men in his car. He was willing to shoot two men in order to make sure justice was served.
This paper will discuss the internal organizational conflict that occurred in the Wake County Department of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) after the formation of the Advanced Practice Paramedic Division (APP). Wake County EMS (WCEMS) is the sole entity with in the Wake county Government structure that is charged with providing prehospital emergency medical care to the visitors and citizens of Wake County. This paper is based on the opinion of the writer; it does not and is not reflective of the department’s opinion or the stance of the county.
The wrier met with a 35 y/o AAM brought to Detroit Receiving Crisis Center by DPD. The consumer report that he took a boat so he could drive it to hell. He states that he was told to sit on a bench and that the boat will be picking him up to take him to hell. He stated he waiting 5 minutes so he took the boat to drive himself cause he got tried of waiting. The consumer denied delusion, auditory/visual hallucination, no suicidal/homicidal ideation, no poor impulse control, on insight into the need for treatment and no impaired judgment. The consumer present with flat affect, disorganized thought, aggressive behavior, impaired judgment, impulsive, aggressive behavior, lack of insight into the need for treatment and he is preoccupied with hell.
A father purchased a toy gun as a birthday gift for his young son. His son went outside to play and and encountered a police officer who shot him seven times. This incident occurred in Sonoma County in October 2013. A similar incident occurred in November 2014 when Cleveland police killed a 12-year-old boy carrying a toy gun. Use of excessive force by police is common in impoverished "black" or "brown" communities.
... is still in the area. The officer should give help to the victim, making sure if only wounded and ambulance is on its way. Investigators must right everything down they can about the scene. After everything has been documented, and the scene is safe, everyone attended to the focus is now on the homicide investigation. The investigators will determine who the victim is; provide the time the death occurred, determine what caused the death and what method was used to get to eradication, and then they will get information that leads them to a suspect (Orthman, Hess, 2013).
There was inappropriate staffing in the Emergency Room which was a factor in the event. There was one registered nurse (RN) and one licensed practical nurse (LPN) on duty at the time of the incident. Additional staff was available and not called in. The Emergency Nurses Association holds the position there should be two registered nurses whose responsibility is to prov...
You are sitting in your living room watching TV, you then hear gun shots and then screams of terror outside your home. You peek through the curtains to see a person laying on the sidewalk. You pick up the phone and dial 911. You are calling the police seeking help, but you are told that there are no police officers available because your city is suffering from a financial crisis and they laid off more than half of the police force. You think to yourself that this cannot be possible, you must dreaming, you reiterate that a person has been shot outside of your home and is in need of help. The dispatcher tells you there is nothing she can do at the moment because all the officers are on other calls and this will have to wait. This scenario may be extreme, however; right now across the United States, the financial crisis has effected law enforcement. Budget reductions are causing vacancies in police departments to go unfilled while at the same time crime rates in several states are rising.
Several years ago, I was getting out of my vehicle in the busy parking lot where I worked. I slipped on ice, my legs went in opposite directions and I fell hard on my right kneecap. While I was laying on the ice, a man walked up and asked “Are you okay? Do you need help?’ Through my tears, I said yes that I needed help and he just walked away. I eventually found my phone in my purse and called a co-worker who I knew was already inside. Luckily, I worked across the street from the hospital and a member of the rescue squad saw me laying in the parking lot and ran over to help. I was eventually transported to the hospital across the street and found out that I had broken my kneecap. “LaTane and Darley (1970) developed a five-step tree that describes how people decide whether to intervene in an emergency.” (Aronson, Wilson, Akert & Sommers, 2016). The five steps include: (1) Notice the event, (2) Interpret the event as an emergency, (3) Assume responsibility, (4) know appropriate form of assistance, (5) and Implement decision. (Aronson et al., 2016). It was obvious that the first man that asked if I needed assistance noticed me laying on the ground and interpreted the event as an emergency, but is appears that he did not want to assume responsibility. Even though he asked if I was okay and needed help, it seems that he never actually called
Police shootings occur all over the world but are a huge problem within the United States. We continue to hear more and more about them. These shootings are making headlines. Front page news it seems almost weekly. All the shootings go one of two ways.
Preparing as a clinician for disaster begins with knowing one’s personal and family preparedness plan. The American Nursing Association (ANA) provides Disaster Competency guidelines for nurses, insuring nurses can make quick and effective decisions during such moments (Smith, 2010). These competency guidelines are found under the ANA Policy White Paper known as “Adapting Standards of Care Under Extreme Conditions: Guidance for Professionals During Disasters, Pandemics, and Other Extreme Emergencies.” The literature has six key recommendations as listed, “(1) Registered Nurses and other health professionals must prepare themselves and their families for potential emergencies, including the potential fort he health professional to be away for extended periods during an emergency. (2) Registered Nurses and other health professionals must use their professional competence to provide the best possible care given the resources and physical conditions under which they are working. (3) Health facilities and other practice sites must provide opportunities for professional decision-makin...
Emergency care has always been an important part of history all over the world. It has been said that medical assistance has been around and prevalent since as far back as 1500 B.C. Around the 1700’s is when EMS systems first began to experience large advancements, and ever since then, the field continues to grow and improve every year.
The reason police officers react slow to their situation is because they often pick the wrong amount of force. In Wolf’s study (2009), he talks about how most police officers have to analyze the situation and the offender, when the situation comes up. It is critical for a police officer to make the right decision, when taking action against a suspect. We see this in the case of Tennessee vs Garner. In the case the police officer used the wrong judgement and faced the consequences. Should deadly force be used by police departments? Deadly force is used when the officer thinks their life is endangered. That was the case with the police officer that shot Gardner. Society thinks that police officers just shoot suspects for anything they do. Police officer’s shoot suspects because they feel like there is no other option and have to reduce the threat in the immediate area. Police officers, often do not make the right decisions, when their suspect acts out of the norm of the officers (Wolf, 2009). Law enforcement officers have difficultly, when going to a crime scene because of what they do not expect. In the Graham vs Conner case, law enforcement officers did not know Graham was a diabetic. The officers