Emergency Medical Dispatch is structured around the use of medical dispatch priority by analyzing questions and answers, providing pre-arrival instructions and prioritizing medical response. As with any organization’s policy or procedure, there are advantages and disadvantages that needs to be investigate before implementing into the daily activities. Among the many advantages of utilizing the emergency medical dispatch is the ability to give the public the level of quality emergency care that
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Medical Professional Interview The medical professional I interviewed is Karen Swaim, She is the Director of Social Services at Abbotts Creek Nursing and Rehab Center. Her education included a Bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina Charlotte. The date of this interview was December 4th at 7:30pm and was done in person. Question #2: Tell me about your background, including education and experience. As stated before Karen Swaim Graduated from the University of North Carolina Charlotte
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Practice Problem Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) place a tremendous burden on our health care system. Russell, Secrest, and Schreeder (2012) report that 1.7 million infections and 99,000 deaths are the result of HAIs each year costing an estimated $4.5 billion. The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) have recently decided to refuse payment for costs incurred as a result of a HAI (Warye & Granato, 2009). Hospitals are faced with finding new, cost-effective ways to prevent these infections
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costs. All hospitals follow a triage system to cope with overcrowding. When there is overcrowding, that will result in longer wait time for treatment, lengthens door to provider time, increase in number of patients leaving ED before treatment, and diverting ambulances to another facility. “Boarding” of patients is one of the main issues in emergency departments and ultimately impacts the service and quality of care patients receive. Emergency department is the front door of the hospital and is the
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2005. Organizational Description Memorial Medical Center was built in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1926. Due to its location, it served a diverse clientele and traditionally served as a shelter when hurricanes threatened the city. The hospital held around 2,000 people when Katrina hit on August 29th, 2005, which included more than 600 workers and 200 patients. The organization had eight
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physicians and educators recognized that there was a shortage of primary care physicians. In 1965 Dr. Eugene Stead, Chairman from the Duke department of Medicine, established a program to formally educate physician assistant. He selected four, Navy Hospital Corpsmen who received considerable medical training during their military service. Stead based the curriculum of the PA program according to his knowledge of the fast-track training of doctors during World War II. The first PA class graduated from
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For many years, widespread spinal immobilization has been commonplace among blunt trauma patients in a prehospital setting, despite an absence of probable spinal injury. In fact, since the introduction of prehospital trauma life support (PHTLS), 89.4% of all trauma patients transported to the emergency department by ambulance have some form of cervical spine control, compared to 2.1% of patients prior to PHTLS (Kon Jin, Goslings & Ponsen). According to Kon Jin, Goslings & Ponsen (2013), “the reason
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As a Health Scholar I will be learning new concepts regarding medical work, but something I already have plenty of experience of is social interactions and customer care. I volunteered at a special education preschool for four years, during that time I learned about the appropriate way to talk to children. They are so young and impressionable that you need to learn the balance between fun and productive, while teaching them. Although I do not know if I would would care for children as a Health Scholar
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A critical incident that I was involved in pertained to a situation that happened to me at work. I was just starting off as a new nurse on the floor in which I currently work on, a step down ICU that is high in acuity and demanding. It was my first week alone after I had been trained for 6 weeks in the month of September 2017. Five minutes prior to the end of my morning shift, I received a last minute patient transferred from another floor with no report from the nurse and no data pertaining the
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Trauma surgeons can work in a many different emergency room settings, from Level I, university-affiliated trauma centers to Level II centers in regional hospitals (Learningpath.org). Coupled with average medical school debt of $170,000, the total cost of attending medical school, a including lost opportunity is around $800,000 ("BestMedicalDegrees.com"). Most trauma surgeons have challenging disadvantages
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