responsibility of development and relief agencies alike. It should be an integral part of the way such organizations do their work‚ not an add-on or one-off action. DRR is very wide-ranging: Its scope is much broader and deeper than conventional emergency management. There is potential for DRR initiatives in just about every sector of development and humanitarian work. The most commonly cited definition of DRR is one used by UN agencies such as UNISDR‚ also known as the UN Office for Disaster Risk
Premium Emergency management
Written Assignment # 3 Submitted: October 18‚ 2014 Mentor: Miriam Redcay Assignment: Success factors to emergency response. Success factors to emergency response As a Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness student the topic to my research proposal is the importance of an after action review to increase the success factors to an emergency response and incident recovery. Every emergency raises many questions of why and how the event occurs; these questions are crucial to understanding and
Premium Emergency management Emergency service Public safety
Emergency contraception is often called the morning after pill which reduces the chances of pregnancy following unprotected sexual intercourse. It consist of increased dose of conventional oral pill or the use of an intra-uterine device. The emergency contraceptive pills each contain .05 mg of the hormone ethinyl estradiol and .5 mg of the hormone norgestrel. The ingestion of these hormones is what prevents or delays ovulation. These hormones also can prevent the fertilization of the egg‚ if one
Premium Birth control Pregnancy Combined oral contraceptive pill
Describe the five different types of shock and include for each‚ its pathophysiology‚ clinical manifestations and treatment. Shock is described as life threatening medical emergency resulting from insufficient blood flow through the body (Huether & Mccance‚ 2012) There are five types of medical shock. These include septic shock‚ anaphylactic shock‚ cardiogenic shock‚ hypovolemic shock‚ and neurogenic shock (Huether & Mccance‚ 2012). Septic shock results from bacteria that multiply in the
Premium Shock Blood Myocardial infarction
Are you in need of emergency cash? Have you run out of options? Have you given up and see no light at the end of the tunnel? There is light at the end of the tunnel‚ read on to find out more about it. • Cash-strapped sellers need to sell their property quickly to raise some cash but they often fail to find the right buyers. Some of them get misled‚ it is very important for a seller to know the current market conditions and also the price of his property‚ these two factors can help generate quick
Premium Economics Money Debt
GOI-UNDP DISASTER RISK REDUCTION PROJECT Empowered lives Resilient nations Quarterly Report For the Quarter Ending 30th September‚2011 Implemented by Orissa State Disaster Management Authority Bhubaneswar QUARTERLY REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF GOI-UNDP DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (DRR) PROJECT FOR THE QUARTER ENDING ON 30.09.11 MAIN RESULT AREA I: INSITUTIONAL STRENTHENING 1. Formation and meetings of the SDMA and DDMAs‚ SSC‚ Inter-agency groups and expert/thematic groups a. State Disaster Management
Premium Emergency management Management 1966
done well at‚ or has the chance to excel at. The strengths are as follows: Jackson Park Hospital already has a budget for the fast track system in their emergency department‚ registered nurses do the triage meaning patients are seen by more than just a doctor. Patients are given written instructions when discharged; there is 24/7-hour emergency room care with a full time attending physician‚ nurses‚ residence physicians‚ and medical students. Lastly‚ Jackson Park has a partial hospitalization program
Premium Hospital Emergency department Patient
An ethical dilemma most people think of is ones code status. In my recent experience working in the emergency department‚ I have participated in resuscitating many elderly individuals. Even when their code status says full code‚ their power of attorney is telling us to perform all efforts to save the individual. It puts the physician and staff in a sticky situation in which we have seconds to decide. In all circumstances I have been involved in‚ the physician orders to resuscitate the patient
Premium Patient Ethics Medicine
Emergency Management is defined and mandated in different levels of government federal‚ state and local emergency management planning in security today faces many critical obstacles‚ such as an imbalance of focus between levels of security such as homeland security‚ FBI and the CIA and including private and public sector security and natural disaster management‚ the challenge of involving the public in preparedness planning‚ the lack of an effective partnership with the business community‚ cuts
Premium September 11 attacks World Trade Center Federal Bureau of Investigation
Election of the President The President of India is elected by an electoral college consisting of: • elected members of the two Houses of Parliament and Legislative Assemblies of the States - Article 54 • It includes the national capital territory of Delhi and the Union territory of Pondicherry • The President’s election is held in accordance with a system of proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote • there shall be uniformity in the scale of representation of the
Premium Lok Sabha Indira Gandhi President