Emergency Preparedness plan for Hospitals
Part 1. The Departments and Tasks. A Visitor control center will be assigned for all visitors who wish to be informed regarding patient's condition and whether a family member was injured. Normal visiting hours are suspended during an emergency situation. A hospital staff member will stay with visitors, and a list may need to be kept of visitors. Volunteers should be enrolled in helping flow. As regards visitors too, telephone calls will be made available for their convenience and so as to ensure no blockage. In the case of extra supplies being needed, runners / messengers will be kept on hand to run for those supplies. The Purchasing Director will be the one in charge of ordering and monitoring these extra supplies In order to keep the patient's articles organized, large bags will be available in the treatment area and storeroom for patient's clothes and other articles. Another communication center will be set up for interacting with the media and for giving information to the relations. The restaurant, in fact, may be used as the meeting area for the press. Patients who are dead on arrival (DOA) will be tagged with an identifying tag with bodies stored in the hallway and monitored by a certain personnel until they are conveyed to the morgue by the Funeral Director. Information of identified bodes will be filed on identifying tag and on medical records. These will then later be passed on to appropriate family members
Physician, 2010) The DNR order is then placed in the patient’s medical record so that
Patients would also not have to wait long hours to receive medical attention, which thus can become stressful for patients, especially elderly and children. The RUC will also address community needs for convenient and reliable access to care. In order to meet the need of the community and be able to provide the appropriate level of care, RUC will provide mainly focus on provide procedure but not limited, diagnoses, and treatment for all ages, such as preventative medicine and the overall health and wellness of community members. The facility will be to provide nursing triage, physician assessments, minor procedures, basic lab services, basic diagnostic imaging, vital signs, IV therapy, EKG, and would care, plus many more with proper trained and supporting staff. The RUC will provide the most comprehensive medical care possible in order to optimize the care and well being of each patient. RUC will provide Nurse Triage physician assessment to handled common illness, respiratory illness, bladder infections, allergies, pregnancy testing, skin rashes, sport injuries and eye, ear and sinus infection. RUC will provide general services such as emergency transfer to KEMH, Vital signs, IV therapy
This author has for plan to reserve a room on the unit where patients can choose to go and do activities that they usually do at home, like watching their favorite television show, listen to radio, read, etc. This room will be called the comfort room and would be a way to remove agitated patients from unnecessary stimuli and try to offer them an alternative to calm themselves down before initiating force. The second part of the plan would be to provide
Event Maps and this document will be placed throughout the event area at various locations.
In day to day operations, uncertainties do occur. Henceforth it would be important to have a contingent and well detailed disaster preparedness plan and procedures. Healthcare systems, on a day to day basis, are faced with emergencies in form of disasters. As a result, majority of medical centers have well-structured exit plans in the event of a disaster occurring("Hospital Disaster Preparedness: Your Guide to Getting Started - Emergency Preparedness", 2011). However, this essay will aim at interviewing one of the top disaster preparedness staffat the Houston Methodist Hospital. In the interview, I will seek to identify the top three disasters that the Houston Methodist Hospital is prepared for. Similarly, in the interview, I would seek to identify the top lessons learnt from disaster preparedness at the hospitals.As it concludes it would summarize the findings with regards to the interview stated below. Below is an excerpt from the interview to answer the two aforementioned questions.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton is a 255-bed hospital featuring more than forty three specialties, the hospital is located adjacent to a major highway which is used to transport hazardous materials, commuters and cargo. Texas Health Presbyterian Denton is a suburb of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, which has an estimated population of seven million residents and covers a geographical area of approximately 9,000 square miles. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and the fourth largest in the United States. The purpose of this paper will be to evaluate the Texas Health Presbyterian Denton’s Emergency Operation’s Plan to determine if it address a comprehensive response to threats, emergencies and disasters while safeguarding the welfare of its citizens.
Information sharing can take place over the phone with approved family members or hospital employees. Another location is in the departments when transferring the patient.
Prepare gurney beds, oxygen tanks, resuscitation rooms by restocking and setting up supplies readily to be use
Emergency Operations Plan University Health Services Emergency Management Programs, Policy, and Planning Trenton Pearson 7/11/2016 Emergency Operations Plan University Health Services 960 Learning Way, Tallahassee, FL 32306 Phone - (850) 644-6230 July 11, 2016 Table of Contents Promulgation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ii Record of changes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- iii Record of distribution ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- iv Signature page ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- v
The role of the emergency department is to diagnose and treat acute and urgent illnesses and injuries. Patients are seen in order of medical urgency. The emergency department bases the patients urgency for treatment based on levels. Level 1 is critical and life-threatening. This is usually related to ABC’s (Airway, Breathing, and Circulation). These patients are top priority and require a lifesaving intervention. Level 2 is also considered high priority and can also be life-threatening. Psychiatric patients are considered level 2, and patients arriving to the ED with chest pain. Level 3 patients require resources such as sutures, x-rays, CAT scans, MRI, etc. Level 3 patients are provided treatment services only after Level 1 and 2 have been addressed. The emergency department at CEMC also has a trauma room and a SANE room. The trauma room is equipped with life-saving medications (such as antidotes for drug overdose) and medical equipment. The SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) room consists of equipment used to assess a patient who has been sexually assaulted. The equipment takes pictures of the patient for the SANE nurse to later provide to law enforcement. A SANE nurse is a specialty nurse and CEMC has one on call 24/7.
Each year, DCHHS celebrates national preparedness month to build national and local awareness to emergency preparedness. Key goals of this year’s emergency preparedness plan focus on understanding which disasters could happen in the community, knowing what steps to take to minimize damages, taking action to increase preparedness and participating in community resilience planning. According to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) a survey found that nearly 60 percent of drill respondents have not practiced what to do in a disaster.
The purpose of the Emergency Preparedness Plan is to save lives and prevent injuries in case of emergencies such as nuclear attack, fire, natural disaster, civil disorder or other, and provide the necessary best practices to ensure all possible and relevant forms of communicating with our faculty, staff, students, and parents. Mrs. Patricia Harris of the International Studies Elementary Charter School was interviewed about the International Studies Elementary Charter School’s Emergency Management Plan and the role of the school counselor during emergencies. Surprisingly, the school counselor does not play as important of a role than one would have thought. Although, the counselor does serve as one of the Designated School Emergency Team Members, some the tasks that would seem likely the counselor would perform, are performed by other administrators. Tasks such as talking to parents or being there for the students are performed by the principal while the school counselor is delegated to direct traffic. Based on the Emergency Management Plan, it would seem that the school counselor’s role is still not clearly understood. With all the expertise that counselors can bring to a crisis situation, it’s disappointing that counselors are assigned such a miniscule task as delegating traffic. Counselor Harris did discuss the Dougherty County School System’s Crisis Team. That team is
Personal preparedness is basic components of any group or association 's emergency planning. Regardless of different helpers, for example, real occasions and open data, people and families remain to a great extent ill-equipped to react to crisis and debacle circumstances (Rumbach and Foley, 2014).
Disasters weather man-made, natural, or technological are ineluctable. Community stakeholders, leaders, and citizens are ultimately culpable for ensuring that a sound disaster preparedness and recovery plan is in place should a calamity materialize. Failure to enact such a plan comes with immeasurable consequences. Over the discourse of this paper, the Banqiao Dam disaster will be examined as a case analysis, to render what preparedness and recovery plans were sanctioned, as well as the scope of the response effort.
Emergency Response planning should target to address the worst case scenarios (Ernst, Oct 4, 2006). As mentioned earlier, the first step in developing an emergency response plan is to conduct a risk assessment and identifying all the potential emergency scenarios (Department of Homeland Security, Emergency Response Plan). Scenarios must be site-specific, credible and be able to have the ability to test the responsiveness to the incidents (Developing Credible Scenarios for Emergency Response Planning). There are three main types of scenario exercises; Discussion based, Table top and Live. Refer to the web article: “Table Top Planning Scenarios” (A Preservation Planning Tool: Table Top Planning Scenarios, Level of Collections Emergency, Webpage)