...Disaster in Franklin County The role of the Health Personnel and the public nurse is to provide immediate relief in the aftermath of a disaster, helping the community to rebuild and recover from the damages sought by the disaster. The member of the public health personnel includes the public information officer, whose role is to make sure that the proper Public Health Information is disseminated to the public and all the agencies involved. This person has extensive experience in supervising and organizing people and will organize, supervise the team and resources. The Operations Section Chief is responsible for manifesting the objective and goal of the department. The Planning Section Chief is responsible for complying, analyzing and circulating information. This person directs the planning procedure of the team. The Logistic Section Chief, accesses the resources the operation requires to help the community through the disaster. They will organize for, supplies, equipment and spaces. The Financial/Administrative Section Chief is responsible for making sure that the team follows necessary contractual and financial processes. The Liaison officer is responsible for providing information by answering questions from all the agencies and acts as go-between them. The Public Nurse duty is to secure the well being of the people in the community to provide quality health care through the utilization of the multidisciplinary team available. In this disaster, the severe thunderstorm left...
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...NUT1 Task 1 Western Governor's University NUT1 Task 1 Importance of Information Access using Electronic Medical Record (EMR): Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is a computerized system of keeping patient information. Similar to paper charting, EMR can be used to chart important patient data to treat patients and document the related nursing care. EMR can be used to store important patient information like patient’s diagnoses, allergies, medication, patient’s demographics, lab and diagnostic test. EMR also includes patient’s medical record number and account number that is given to the patients and is also used as reference about patients for future admissions. EMR’s provide accurate information that is easily accessible than paper charting. It also provides easy health care access to providers, improves communication among patients and health care providers. With EMR, nurses have easier access to in depth and detailed charting of physical assessment, tallying input and output and easy comparison in the trends of labs and diagnostic test. EMR also prevents medication errors since patients bar codes are scanned and verified accurately prior to administering medication. Data about medication is available prior to administration, so nurses can monitor possible side effects of medication. Thus charting patient information in real time or the ability to access results improves quality of patient care and increase co-ordination among health care providers. Personal Health Information:...
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...Dannielle Caddell Nursing Informatics- NUT1 EPIC VS MCKESSON For this research, I am conducting my search based on two well-known systems for computerized charting in the medical field. These two vendors are known as, EPIC and McKesson. In the next few pages, I will be comparing these two vendors; and at the end of this project I will choose which one I would not mind being associated with or using in the future. I will be analyzing how these systems can improve quality of care for patients, how hand-held devices can or cannot help the medical professionals, how the computerized systems can help nurses, but also how these systems can possibly increase and improve patient involvement of care. Computerized management systems can amazingly increase the quality of patient care, as well as safety for the patients. Electronic Medical Records aid nurses in being able to identify if a patient may have an allergy to a medication that will be given. As a nurse, you may not always know if a certain antibiotic is in the same class as an allergy that the patient may have. If the patient does have an allergy, there will be a warning that will pop up for you to view. If the provider approves this patient to have the medication, it may be given, but the pop up is there for patient safety and for the nurse’s own awareness as well. These systems can also help increase quality of care because they will make the patients feel safer. When in nursing school you are always...
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...NUT1 Task 2 A. Increase in Quality of Care Electronic Medical Records (EMR) can increase quality of care in many ways. Unlike paper records, EMR is available to multiple members of the healthcare team in different locations, all at the same time. EMR makes it easy for caregivers to have all of a new patient’s previous visit information at their fingertips, which can help with obtaining a more accurate history upon admission. An accurate history will help caregivers make better decisions when planning a patient’s care. Because records are stored in a database instead of on paper, they are safe from natural disasters, forgery, loss, or damage. Many, many years of records can be stored in a relatively small space, which will negate the need for rows and rows of filing cabinets, and microfiche. This makes them easier to manage and retrieve. Less paper also means neater workspaces and better organization in the workplace, and because records are available on the database from multiple locations, the need for faxing or mailing records is decreased, increasing security. EMR can also be used to collect data for Quality Improvement processes, and an EMR system can have pop-up alerts built in to notify caregivers of best practices, allergies, and drug interactions. EMR’s that also have a medication bar code scanning system built in will help to reduce med errors by alerting nurses to wrong patient/wrong dose/ wrong time errors. Electronic Medical Records can reduce patient’s wait...
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