Health Program Evaluation: Northern Territory Emergency Response

Introduction The Northern Territory, in association with the Commonwealth and other state and territory governments are focused on enhancing the work wellbeing and security of all Australian workers and upgrading benefits by blending work wellbeing and safety regulations throughout Australia. The Work Health and Safety Act of the Northern Territory is a legislation that gives an adjusted and broadly reliable structure to secure the wellbeing and security of workers and the working environments by…

Ravandeep Kaur (Group B) Unit 3: Health, safety and security in health and social care. D2: Justify responses to a particular incident or emergency in a health or social care setting. In my P4, I talked about 4 different incidents and emergencies that could occur in a health and social care setting such as a hospital and what the priorities and responses would be in each scenario. I will now be justifying why the responses I chose would be the most…

Introduction The Wicomico County Health Department Behavioral Health Program is an Outpatient Mental Health Program that provides/serve the mental health needs of adults, children, adolescents, and their families. The services offered are the following including; psychiatric evaluation, medication evaluation and monitoring, strength based needs assessment, individual, family, and group counselling/therapy, school based services, as well as trauma therapy. As an intern, my role at the agency includes;…

The Northern Territory Intervention and the Closing the Gap initiative are two Federal Government strategies that were designed to end the disparity between the health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. These two initiatives are strikingly different in the way they were conceived and implemented. The Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) was made and delivered in haste without any consultation with Indigenous Australians and some Indigenous leaders in the Northern Territory communities…

The Northern Territory Intervention, or as it is more correctly known, the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 (Altman, 2007), was introduced by the Australian federal government as a legislative response to the Northern Territory’s governmental inquiry into allegations of child sexual abuse and neglect within Aboriginal communities (Hunter, 2008). A report exploring the inquiry, titled “Little Children are Sacred”, recommended that Indigenous child sexual abuse in the Northern…

Crisis and Emergency Response This section specifies procedures for various emergency situations, including accidents that occur between school and environmental emergencies, fires, natural disasters, medical emergencies, and school intruders. Emphasis is placed on the importance of creating scenarios and exercises for practicing responses to each of these situations. During an emergency the principal and staff must be prepared to follow procedures, yet make leadership decisions according to…

dimension. The following essay will expose the complex interconnection between the political, economic and cultural dimensions of globalization through the analysis of a contemporary issue, the Northern Territory National Emergency Response (commonly known, and hereafter referred to, as the Northern Territory Intervention, which encompasses both the NTNER bill and subsequent legislation). An argument will be made that proponents of neoliberalism need to be held accountable to the inevitable effects…

The Northwest Territories is a large mass of Northern Canada. This territory has many advantages regarding its physical and social settings. The three factor that make the Northwest Territories an adequate territory to live in is the economy, population, and physical geography. The economic factors contribute to the Northwest Territories’ accomplishments. The main industries in the Northwest Territories are tourism and mining. Since the ground has permafrost and is unsuitable for farming and agriculture…

will discuss emergency response derived from the Federal Emergency Management System through the Department of Homeland Security, and the management system connecting the support entities. Additionally, it will cover the response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Specifically, this paper will look into a few areas where emergency response has failed and why. Furthermore, it will look at lessons learned from failings associated with these responses. Finally…

The response of emergency response crews was effective in the Alfred P. Murrah bombing, though was rather confusing at first. The establishment of three different command posts could have turned tragic though was caught early and formed into one post. Companies from the fire departments were found to be requesting for what was thought to be separate incidents, though was realized to be one incident that was rather large needing incident command to control. With the amount of radio traffic some…