answer. Some other activities like doing crossword puzzles and word searches helps my brain think at a faster pace. Whenever my school takes the class to field trips to NASA or museums‚ I am very intrigued by the experience. I want to become an Emergency Room Doctor‚ so those type of field trips can benefit me in my future. I do enjoy working with groups to do projects such as‚ mousetrap car‚ bottle rockets‚ and bridges because it gets done faster. Also we put our creative minds together to format
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As I’m sitting in the emergency room waiting room considering what I could’ve possibly done to be entitled to this. I’m only 10 how could I be responsible for something like this. I sat there staring at my siblings deeply absorbed in thought. In a way I knew that my day would end with news that would disappoint me. I think it’s better if I back up just a little. The evening of July 13th‚ 2010 was a transformative evening‚ As a young girl experiencing something like this impacts you significantly
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Emergency room over utilization is one of the leading causes of today’s ever increasing healthcare costs. The majority of the patients seen in emergency rooms across the nation are Medicaid recipients‚ for non-emergent reasons. The federal government initiated Medicaid Managed Care programs to offer better healthcare delivery‚ adequately compensate providers and reduce healthcare costs. Has Medicaid Managed Care addressed the issues and solved the problem? The answer is ‘Yes’ and ‘No’. Throughout
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The Use of Emergency Room as a Primary Care Provider There are Emergency rooms all over the United States that are being utilized as primary care provider.‚ by patients covered by private insurance‚ Medicaid‚ Medicare as well as the uninsured.(Baker‚ August 13‚ 2008) Some patients call their primary care provider and are told‚ they cannot be worked in for several days or weeks. The option given is to go to the Emergency room for treatment. Other reasons are people who do not have a primary
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Emergency Rooms vs Urgent Care Centers People everyday deal with sudden illnesses and emergencies‚ and it always seems these unfortunate situations happen when your physician’s office is closed. If your emergency is bad enough‚ most people will go to their local emergency department‚ but that may not always be the best choice. This is where it would benefit people to know the many differences between emergency rooms and urgent care centers. Emergency rooms and urgent care centers differ
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Emergency Room Nurses Face Increasing Danger Emergency nurses are starting to get hurt. According to the Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services International Conference held in Berlin this year‚ 98 percent of emergency room nurses in the Unites States reported verbal harassment and 67 percent reported physical violence. While in Canada‚ 84 percent of the nurses in the emergency department witnessed verbal harassment once in every shift. While there are 90 percent of them claimed
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and why the hospital emergency department sometimes used for nonurgent conditions. | The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act‚ better known as EMTALA was developed due to the concern that patients that could not pay would be denied emergency medical treatment. This law confronted the hospitals that were allegedly transferring‚ discharging‚ or refusing to treat patients who did not have insurance. To protect these patients‚ the 1986 signed law required emergency facilities to must screen
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made me certain of what I wanted to pursue. That day consisted of being brought to the Emergency Room by my uncle while he was on call. That day I saw many gruesome things‚ one of those things was one that has remained imprinted in my mind till this day. There was a little girl about the age of seven‚ she had gotten into an accident and had terrible lacerations from a car accident. I waited outside of the room in which she was receiving surgical care. I waited for more than a few hours until I finally
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It was a beautiful spring morning in Los Angeles. I awoke from an ambulance passing by and I realized I was late for work. When I was on my way to work‚ I saw more and more ambulances come hurdling passed me‚ wondering what is going on. When I got to my job as a female security guard for The Los Angeles County Prison there was no one new brought in. As I was waiting for new people to join our jail I was looking at the news with my feet propped on the desk‚ eating a salad and there is some type of
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Emergency management is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding risks. It is a discipline that involves preparing‚ supporting‚ and rebuilding society when natural or human-made disasters occur. Similar‚ it is the continuous process by which all individuals‚ groups‚ and communities manage hazards in an effort to avoid‚ or better the impact of disasters resulting from the various hazards. In fact‚ “emergency management is a relatively new field but one that can call upon an 88-year tradition of
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