The incident involving the use of the weapon of mass destruction implies disastrous health effects, but the current incident management plan does not address the health component properly. The WMD incident may involve a large number of victims and the possible deterioration of the public health in a long-run perspective, especially in case of using chemical or nuclear weapon. This is why the plan should be detailed and it should address different scenarios that may need different strategic approaches to the public health and incident management plan. The mere cooperation of state and local health agencies is not enough to address such incident. Instead, the national public health program is needed to address the incident involving the use of
Beginning in the early 1990’s, a series of governmental actions against biological warfare and bioterrorism were instituted, including the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control Act, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act, and the Defense Authorization Act. These acts were meant to either dissuade bioterrorists or boost the government’s power in defensive biological warfare research (Lanthrop). In April of 2000, the CDC published a guide, Biological and Chemical Terrorism: Strategic Plan for Preparedness and Response, which covered “planning, detection and surveillance, laboratory analysis, emergency response, and communications” (“CDC”). The APIC and CDC have co-written a guide for hospitals who come into contact with biological agents to follow (“CDC”). To sum up these guidebooks, it is important to look out for the following incidences: an irregular rapid increase in disease occurrences, an epidemic curve, an unusual pattern or time for a disease to thrive, clusters of patients from the same area, large numbers of fatal cases, simultaneous reports of animal deaths (Lanthrop).
Prior to the July 1, 2015, CIRP meeting, Deputy Brown’s PPI record reflected he “shall be temporarily removed from the field until completion of the Critical Incident Review process,” under case number SP 2380864. The same special condition record was in Brown’s PPI record at the time of his third shooting. It appears there could be some type of liability, based upon the perception that the Sheriff’s Department continued to permit Brown to work field duties (the term “field duties” not currently defined) when his PPI record reflected otherwise.
Assessment 3 - Case Study 1 Q1. This case study illustrates a medication error where the wrong dose was administered. In 500 words, state how this adverse event could have been prevented. You should systematically work through the six rights and discuss what strategies you would employ to ensure you administer the right dose. Registered nurses are accountable for their own individual performance to ensure quality of care and health services for everyone.
The anthrax attacks of 2001 exposed serious inadequacies in the response of the U.S. public health system to meet such grave threats. The federal government passed the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 and appropriated funds to develop the public health infrastructure. Since 2002, Dr.
The FEMA IS-100b was developed during catastrophic fires in California, this fire resulted in millions in damages and several loss of lives. As a result, the Incident command system (ICS) was created and the purpose of the system was to develop a structure that is used to plan for terrorism or a disaster be it natural or man-man. Using the ICS to respond to all-hazards give the responder an organized structure to follow when responding to an incident. When apply the ICS to all-hazards it will be utilized by each level of government and follows the five major functional areas: command, operations, planning, logistics, and finance and administration.
Is the use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in war ethical? Is there an appropriate time to use them? A dilemma will later be presented for consideration. Different ethical theories can either support or oppose the use of CBW depending on the circumstances. However, chemical, biological and nuclear agents are dangerous, uncontrollable and undifferentiating weapons of mass destructions. Actions must be taken to see that there are no future instances of use during war. However, before one discusses the legal and ethical issues involved with CBW, one must understand what chemical, biological and nuclear weapons are and how they function.
In the late 19th century the world’s first weapon of mass destruction was introduced. Despite and agreeance amoung European nations to not use the gas as a weapon, the posionous war gases were gradually being deployed throughout the four years of World War I. Germany was the first to deploy this WMD because they believed it would result in victory. Opposing enemy soilders were unprepared for this new weapon. Over the course of the war the development of the gases depended upon academic and industrial scientists. The government use of university science departments and medical school scientists to create weapons is a violation of scientific and medical ethics. The exposure of war gases “endangered not only soldiers and civilians on the battlefield but also chemical workers on the home front involved in the large-scale manufacturing processes.”
In the article “Know the Smells and Warning Bells of WMD”, the author, John Linstrom’s principal point is that the fire departments should better prepare to respond to incidents involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Historically, explosive or WMD incidents were handled by law enforcement, while fire assumed a support role, but with increased terroristic occurrences, firefighters have been finding themselves in situations where they have been first on scene. Mr. Linstrom stresses that firefighters need to be mindful of the threat of explosives and WMD’s when responding to incidents (Linstrom, 2004). Firefighters need to familiarize themselves with terrorist tactics and beware of potential high-risk
We noted that the company does not have a comprehensive incident management system or a documented procedure or application used to record, monitor and escalate incidents raised by the business.
In the effort to be prepared for incidents using weapons of mass destruction, the United States government has come up with
I think back the Target incident in 2013, because this is on event that I was a part of. Being in management at that time it was difficult to deliver the message to your employees. I could remember those that were over me at the time being confused. Even though we had a contingency plan in place, which I did not know about until I took this course that those over me could not execute it right. No one ever thinks that this could happen to them. Target was attacked by malware that was through another company. That malware that was sent by email and then it was used through that company to remotely connect to Target’s network. Not to mention at the time Target had a weak password structure that even a 12-year-old could figure out. Another important
Communication: Leaders and executive must gain employee trust and confidence and communicate the execution strategy and share the expected results.
The first World war chemical weapons were used then outlawed for combat. “Unlike when the U.S. was the only nuclear power and first used the technology against Japan without fear of reciprocation” ( The Ch.1 The Dangers). As a country we didn’t know the effects of a bomb on a living city, but now we know the consequences. Now what
There is a need for preparedness training within hospitals for WMD. As it stands, there are currently a few set standards in place that would help deal with deal WMD threat within their hospitals or outside threat that could be coming towards their facility for treatment because they are the close. The type of threat they could be expose too for example are, Ebola, Anthrax’s, SARS etc. WMD that are released within a hospital only has one agenda which is to kill. Because the types of WMD are contagious and airborne it can spread very quickly without any warning. The focus will be how emergency managers can help hospitals to recognize, prepare, train, and to be able to identify suspicious vials, letters, powers, etc. If the hospitals can prepare and train effectively to recognize these threats immediately then they will be able to prevent the spread of Airborne WMD threat. This type of preparedness and training will help the hospitals ready themselves to handle these types of threats no matter when it may occur.
Over the past few decades, the significance, magnitude and consequence of risk management and communication have been brought before the world over and over again in a number of situations related to health, terrorist activities, natural disasters etc. When one turns the pages of history, it is rather obvious that lack of planning and absence of resources due to unpreparedness makes it difficult for the concerned authorities to manage an emergency or epidemic a problematic and traumatic task. The chaotic situations can turn out to be more nerve-racking and tense when preparations are not made before hand (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2002).