Everyday there are hundreds of ambulances, fire engines and police cars being called to the scene of emergencies. I’m sure you hear the roar of their sirens, but you don’t think twice about them and are able to tune them out. The only time most people even think about the sirens is if they are forced to wait at a light or move over to the right shoulder and let them pass. When you look back and think about those sirens, where do you suppose they are going? Most people probably think that they are going to a car accident with entrapment, or a person with crushing chest pain to try and intervene and get them to the hospital. Realistically, they very well could be going to someone who has had a persistent cough for 3 weeks and decided tonight was the night that they should be checked out in the emergency room. Unfortunately, the abuse and misuse of the emergency medical system (EMS) is one that exists but can have terrible outcomes and consequences if not changed soon. This problem is not just an issue for the patients waiting on care, but it also affects the hospitals and the emergency workers alike. …show more content…
They have implemented a new level of pre-hospital technician above a paramedic, called the community paramedic or the paramedic practitioner. It requires more education than the normal paramedic, but it greatly expands the role and ability to treat a whole spectrum of health problems. They would no longer only be there to treat emergencies; they would be able to help in everyday health issues. There are some critics of this program, Dr. Bryan Bledsoe,“ This use of advance paramedic practitioners holds promise, but it’s still to early to tell,” he says. This may be why some places are very afraid to be the ones to try it out first. But, is fear of a potential failure worth the lives lost and true emergency care delayed that happens by not
¨ If I cannot give my consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?- Sue Rodriguez. If one cannot choose when they die and how they go out, then are we really the owner of our life and body? Physician assisted suicide is the practice of providing a competent patient with a prescription for medication for the patient to use with the primary intention of ending his or her own life. When the patient is terminally ill and is in a lot of pain they should be able to end their own life instead of waiting for it to end itself. Even though some argue that physician assisted suicide is not a humane way of dying it still stops the patient´s suffering and gives them peace of mind.
I found your post interesting, having worked in an emergency department during my paramedic years. In my career as a nurse working in a clinic on occasion we must send a patient to the emergency department. I always call to speak with the charge nurse to provide report prior to just sending the patient, often I am on hold for greater than 15 minutes. This often results in the patient arriving at the ER before I can give report. Adding to this the charge nurse on more than one occasion is calling me on another line to ask why the patient it there! However, from past experience I do know how busy the ER can be at any given time.
Wake County EMS responds to almost 90,000 requests for service annually and serves almost 1 million people, which places the WCEMS system in the top fifty EMS systems in the country based on call volume and size of population served. ("Wake county department," 2012) In response to ever-increasing call volume, a decrease in primary care, and the universal changes in healthcare, which have resulted in more people using EMS and the local emergency room for primary care and non-life threatening events, the EMS Department elected to change their service structure. The department would move away from the traditional EMS mantra of “you call we haul” and having a system being designed around reactive responses to healthcare issues in the community to an evidenced based incident prevention structure. No longer, would it be considered prudent or correct to just continue to add transport resources to address the increasing call volume and continue to place the actual burden of care on the local hospitals, it would become the burden of the EMS system to provide alternatives to properly address the actual healthcare needs of those who called 911. Wake County EMS had already utilized evidenced based ...
The occupations that I have chosen to analyze using the three elements for this assignment are paraprofessional, what I am currently, and a teacher, what I am going to college to become. Teachers and paraprofessionals work side by side, collaborate, plan, and share many of the same experiences. However, paraprofessionals are often not treated as equals and has created some ethical judgement regarding treatment of the paraprofessionals from other teachers and administrators in the business of education. I want to use this assignment as an opportunity to distinguish the true professional using the elements designed for this course.
Paraprofessionals continue to be instrumental in the instruction of students with disabilities in public schools. However, because of lack of training, paraprofessionals struggle to implement evidence-based interventions with high levels of fidelity and also report lack of understanding of job roles and responsibilities. I created and examined a training package based upon the evidenced-based practices of discrete trial instruction, prompting and differential reinforcement. I found after the delivery of the six-week program, all participants reported better understanding of their job roles and responsibilities and increased the fidelity with which they implemented those three evidence-based practices. The training package included three separate
Imagine yourself laying on your deathbed, hooked up to countless machines. The doctors are constantly coming to check you while you're trying to get what little sleep you can through the agonizing pain. Even more you're suffering from the side effects of countless drugs, constipation, delirium, you can barely breathe and you've lost all your appetite. There no chance of survival and death is imminent, it's just a matter of time when. You just lay there fighting for your last seconds. Now, if you had the chance to choose how your life ended, wouldn't you choose how and when it ends? Hence, doctor assisted suicide should be a legal option for terminally ill patients. This is a humane way for them to end their lives with dignity, without shame and suffering. We don't have the freedom of speech unless we have the freedom to refuse to speak. The same goes for our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we can't have complete freedom unless we have the freedom to deny these things. We can't claim full control over our life if we cannot choose when to end it. Thus, people should be given the right to assisted suicide in order to end their unnecessary suffering, to preserve the individual right of people to determine their own fate, and to reduce the burden on their families both, financially and emotionally.
Canadian military soldiers have been fighting for the country’s freedom and justice for many years. Soldiers have been dedicating their lives to protect the citizens of Canada by facing horrible circumstances such as killing, injuries, and new environments, which leave the soldiers’ well-being in a devastating condition. In recent years, the issue of soldiers’ health has become more apparent. Soldiers are coming back from deployment with poorer health statuses then pervious years and not getting the services they need, affecting the various strategies health care providers particularly nurses use. The government or military has not done enough to provide soldiers with adequate resources after deployment, mainly focusing on providing them with
When I learned that one individual can only do so much while a group of passionate individuals can even move mountains, I took on the role of a shift leader to moderate volunteers and joined the emergency department to study a new environment the hospital offer. During that time, I trained numerous volunteers and assisted countless staffs in saving lives at an effective rate with quality services. Many volunteers I trained are continuing their ardent determination to thrive in the small volunteer room alongside with zealous
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When candidates are competing for an award, a job, or an honor, they often use the qualities of their character as evidence as to why they deserve it. I certainly understand and believe in the necessity of qualifications; however, I have also always believed that having a plan of what one will do with a certain honor is an integral part of deserving it. That is why this essay is not about my previous accomplishments. This essay is a declaration of my ideas to serve as a representative of Seton Hill University by making the community, state, and country a better place for all.
My claim: I argue in favor of the right to die. If someone is suffering from a terminal illness that is: 1) causing them great pain – the pain they are suffering outweighs their will to live (clarification below) 2) wants to commit suicide, and is of sound mind such that their wanting is reasonable. In this context, “sound mind” means the ability to logically reason and not act on impulses or emotions. 3) the pain cannot be reduced to the level where they no longer want to commit suicide, then they should have the right to commit suicide. It should not be considered wrong for someone to give that person the tools needed to commit suicide.
Emergency care has always been an important part of history all over the world. It has been said that medical assistance has been around and prevalent since as far back as 1500 B.C. Around the 1700’s is when EMS systems first began to experience large advancements, and ever since then, the field continues to grow and improve every year.
I am currently working towards becoming a qualified paramedic which is an unregistered occupation. When the Health Practitioners Competency Act (HPCA) was passed, paramedics were considered to pose a low risk of harm to patients; however, with the progression of the paramedic identity, this certainly requires re-evaluation (ref). The primary purpose of registering is to maintain professional standards and to protect the health and safety of the public (ref). This includes malpractice, negligence or discredit to the profession. Accusations will not be permanently held against the paramedic which is a safety risk to consumers (ref).
It’s hard to envision life deprived of health insurance. If you have any nature of medical conditions that necessitates medical attention, you need appropriate healthcare insurance, if you have appropriate health insurance you can be cared for in the finest of private hospitals. An induvial can get countless treatment based on the illnesses, depending on the severity of the disease; an individual can be treated as soon as conceivable. Doctors, physicians and surgeons are not eager to put out the energy if they know that they are dealing with patients who are insured and have the money to go under extensive medical treatment. But visualize life deprived of such luxuries.
First Aid is the initial care for an illness or injury. First Aid is usually performed in emergency situations by a non-professional person. First Aid can be performed on animals although it is generally meant for the care of humans. Going back to the beginning of the practice of First Aid, it was first practiced by the religious knights in the Eleventh Century. Care was provided to the Pilgrims and Knights as well as training on how to care for common battle wounds. Aid came to a halt during the High Middle Ages and organizations were not seen again until 1859. A few years later, a few nations met in Geneva and formed what we know to be the Red Cross. The main purpose of the Red Cross was to give Aid to the sick and wounded soldiers during battle. In 1878, the formation of St. John Ambulance was put into effect. The ambulance was generally for aid to people in emergencies. Large railway centers, mining districts and police forces were the first to pair with ambulances. Also in 1878 the concept of teaching First Aid to civilians was announced. Surgeon-Major Peter Shepherd and Dr. Coleman performed the first First Aid class with a curriculum that they had formed. First Aid training began to grow in the UK with high risk activities.