individuals, whether it is for someone that has trauma, needed surgery, needed blood transfusion, cancer patients, etc. More than 38,000 blood donations are needed every day to meet the need for the high supply, however, this need is not met (American Red Cross, 2011). Being that there is a high need for blood donation, stakeholder need to find creative ways to obtain the blood that is needed. The stakeholders are the physicians, blood centers, patients, and blood donors. Stakeholders who work
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Emergency Preparedness and Response Joy Carr NUR/408 January 10, 2012 Sandi Wheeler, R.N., MSN Emergency Preparedness and Response Public emergency preparedness and response is the ability of the public health and health care systems, communities, and individuals, to prevent, protect against, quickly respond to, and recover from emergencies, particularly those whose scale, timing, or unpredictability threatens to overwhelm routine capabilities. Preparedness involves a continuous process
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During the civil war Clara did many things. She helped all the soldiers in every way possible. At the beginning, she did many things for the Union Army, collecting and disturbing supplies for them. In 1862, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Clara Barton served as an independent nurse and saw combat for the first time. At Antietam, she also cared for soldiers there as well. That is where she was labeled the nickname, “The angle of the battlefield”. She got this name for all of her hard work and dedication
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showed an apprehensive looking father with his daughter asking what he did during the war. The son is playing with toy soldiers on the floor. The poster is titled Daddy, what did you do in the great war (Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, 1915). The poster was obviously trying to guilt some men to join the war effort. Other posters were aimed at getting people to buy war bonds. Many people wanted in some way help with the war effort. The posters advertised how it was a great way to support the troops
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and losses to its residents, property, economy and the environment. Catastrophes often overwhelm communities that lack adequate resources to respond to or recover from a hazard. Disaster or emergency management, according to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (http://www.ifrc.org/en/what-we-do/disaster-management/preparing-for-disaster/risk-reduction/international-day-for-risk-reduction/), can be defined as the organization and management of resources and responsibilities for dealing
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Throughout the course of this semester, Grace Tolbert, my partner, and I were juggling ideas of what to do to complete our Service Learning Project for our Honors Ethics Class. Originally, we had the idea of doing yard work/landscaping here around the campus of Old Dominion University. However, when trying to get in touch the grounds department, the process was moving slow so Grace and I decided to advance to other options. Going through different ideas, we landed on the idea to start a blood drive
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Eric Suerez Mr. Reid Social Studies P.9 11-5-14 Clara Barton Report Clara Barton was born in Massachusetts in 1821. She had six siblings and was the youngest of them all. Clara had many different working occupations, such as working as a clerk, a bookkeeper, and even a teacher several years later. She even had the opportunity to start her own school in Bordentown, New Jersey in 1853. Clara was well ahead of her time. She was amongst very few women running their own school in the United States
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Pocahontas, was a Powhatan Native American woman and daughter of the Algonquin Chief Powhatan who had a significant role in the Native American population. Also, Pocahontas was the most significant Indian who is recognized for her involvement with English colonial settlement at Jamestown. As equally important to mention about Clara Barton, another symbolic woman who played an important role in the history. Barton was a pioneering registered nurse who founded the American Red Cross and she is remembered as
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The early history of Haiti is tragic and unique. Throughout history, this small country has suffered from natural disasters, poverty, racial discrimination, lack of economic resources, and political instability. Haiti is located in the Caribbean next to the Dominican Republic, on Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone, as well as the area’s largest hurricane track, bringing it bad luck geographically (Henley). On January 1, 1804, Haiti declared independence from France, and in 1805, Jean-Jacques Dessalines
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in need by the other people. Initially people started this by providing the voluntary help to each other but today it has got the official form. If an individual wants to do charity then he can donate the money to the charity groups like UNICEF. Red cross and so on and they make sure that his money is being used in the nice purpose. This allows a lot of people to invest their money in the good purpose of mankind. If we go to the history of charity the first record of official charity goes to the 25th
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