week 3 health care response

Hi, I have 2 of my

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posts. I need you to respond to each one separately.

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, one source at least for each one of them.

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write about how good their posts or how bad.

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need to do is to choose one point of the post and explore it a little bit with one source support for each response. The paper should be APA style

the
question was to Pick 2 of the six Joint Commission’s six critical aspects of emergency response. Describe them and provide supporting documentation on why they are defined as critical by the Joint Commission

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CRITICAL ASPECTS OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE

Emergency management is defined as the organization, management and mobilization of resources and responsibilities that are explicitly critical

to
emergencies. These cover various aspects in emergencies such as preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery. The primary aim of emergency management is to significantly reduce the harmful impacts of disasters or hazards (Paton & Johnston, 2017). Documentation and preparation for emergencies might be everything to emergency

management but
there is a point where the rubber meets the road, and this is in between when the actual event

have
to be responded to. Some factors are essential during this phase, and this includes ensuring that protocol is in place and the protocol is observed to the latter, and identification of the persons in charge of the various teams involved in the emergency program. Emergency responses have been organized into six critical areas, and this was done to ensure that an impact is made on the safety of the staff and patients in case of an emergency. These six crucial areas include communication, safety and security, resources and assets, staff responsibilities, management of utilities and patient clinical and support activities (Kenney et al., 2015).

This excerpt would focus on only two of these six critical aspects of emergency response.

a.
Resources and assets

Supplies either medical or non-medical are critical in emergency response. For some organizations, it might be critical to providing services at the site of an emergency, in case this is the plan, then a program to ensure that every resource and assets are replenished in time have to be enacted. People affected by disaster need medication, food and

beddings
all of which are a basic human

necessity hence
the need for strategies to ensure a constant supply, which observes the frequency and quantity of supplies is maintained need to be maintained. Human beings depend on these needs to survive hence the need to ensure that no shortage is observed in supplying these necessities (Romano, Díaz, & Aedo, 2016).

The resources available have to be put

in
effective use to ensure the emergency response program does not fall short of resources before the program even nears completion, this would spell doom to the program hence increased probability of failure.

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Communication

Various audiences are involved in emergency management, and their roles are critical. In case incidences occur, it is vital that information is relayed to these audiences even though the data may vary depending on their needs and interests. Communication also impacts how the organization managing an emergency response perceives the scenario is making it an essential aspect of emergency management. Documentations are always maintained and within these documentations might be attempted contacts with other players in the sector at either local, state or regional levels.

Protocols have to be observed to ensure that the situation under consideration is handled in a proper manner and communication determines how the protocol is communicated to the team managing the response activity (Haddow, Bullock & Coppola, 2017). The resources and needs of the affected population have to be determined, and it is only through communication that such information might be passed quickly, and reach the target persons for an effective reaction to be auctioned.

Communication impacts on nearly all the phases of emergency management. Preparation stage is dependent on

communicated
preparedness messages that aim at encouraging and educating the public. Reports on ongoing disasters, warning signs, evacuation and public notification all depend on communication and have to be done under the response stage (Haddow, Bullock & Coppola, 2017). The recovery stage provides persons affected by disasters with information on how best they can register and receive disaster relief. These aspects are all dependent on communication.

References

Haddow, G., Bullock, J., & Coppola, D. P. (2017). Introduction to emergency management. Butterworth-Heinemann.

Kenney, C., Phibbs, S., Paton, D., Reid, J., & Johnston, D. M. (2015). Community-led disaster risk management: A Māori response to Ōtautahi (Christchurch) earthquakes.

Paton, D., & Johnston, D. (2017). Disaster resilience: an integrated approach. Charles C Thomas Publisher.

Romano, M., Díaz, P., & Aedo, I.

(
2016, October). Emergency Management and Smart Cities: Civic Engagement Through Gamification. In International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries (pp. 3-14). Springer, Cham.

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The Joint Commission provided six critical areas of emergency response including communication, and security as well as safety among others. These two are discussed below.

Communication

Communication refers to the exchange of information by speaking, writing, or by use of other media. In the case of emergency management, communication between emergency managers, information sources, and those impacted is essential as it helps make the process of disaster management much easier and effective. Furthermore, communication helps keep responsible staff informed of what is going on within the organization as well as across responding organization which enables them to anticipate downstream needs and gain control over their environment (The Joint Commission, 2013). Moreover, maintaining contact with the outside world during an attack can help victims or the staff avoid the feelings of detachment.

Security and Safety

The healthcare organizations prepare for how they will manage security and safety during a disaster, as part of their Emergency Operations Plan (EOP). The plan should specify how security and safety will be prioritized and organized. This includes how healthcare organizations will coordinate with the security agencies as well as how it will address the issue of hazardous waste and materials (Reilly & Markenson, 2011). The documentation does not only educate responsible parties prior to an event, but also acts as a reference during the disaster response as well as after emergency while carrying out the evaluation process.

References

Reilly, M. J., & Markenson, D. (2011). Health Care Emergency Management: Principles and Practice. Jones & Bartlett Learning.

The Joint Commission. (2013). Health Care at the Crossroads. TJC.