licensed in another state in certain circumstances and have the right to declare an emergency. This means that counselors and therapists from one state can practice in in other states if there is an emergency or in an instance falls under a certain circumstance. I was interested in this bill because I hope to become a family therapist. The importance of this bill shows that counselors and therapists may be in an emergency where they need to take action, but they are not licensed in that particular state
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then vectored the aircraft in a holding pattern southeast of the airport. After about an hour and a half of circling southeast of the airfield while the flight crew coped with the landing gear malfunction and prepared the passengers for a possible emergency landing, the captain finally decided to begin the approach to runway 28L. The plane crashed during the approach about 6 nautical miles southeast of the airport in a wooded populated of suburban Portland due to fuel exhaustion. The aircraft was destroyed
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FUND UTILIZATION For the Quarter Ending September 30, 2012 GENERAL FUND Province/City/Municipality: CITY OF MATI P 543,188,677.00 p 22,257,663.93 Estimated Revenue from Regular Sources: CALAMITY FUND Less: DISBURSEMENTS Pre-Disaster Preparedness Programs Management/Operational Expenses: Fuel, Oil & Lubricants Travelling Expenses Office Supplies Capital Outlay: Purchase of Office Equipment for OpCen Purchase of Vehicle for (OpCen) Projects and Programs: Construction of Flood Control –
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with this foundation that a needs assessment was conducted in the emergency department (ED) of the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas. Uncontrolled asthma places an enormous strain on individuals’ and health systems resources, and is a major cause of hospitalizations and poor quality of life (Mash et al. 2009) The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States estimates that asthma accounts for 1.6 million emergency department visits and 440,000 hospitalizations annually. In addition
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They depend on immediate relief for the emergency period through NGOs, and GO. They are more dependent on the ‘safety net’ programmes of government as most vulnerable groups. CBOs – a community based formal set up, it is civil society non-profits that operate within a single local community. They are essentially a subset of the wider group of nonprofits. Like other nonprofits they are often run on a voluntary basis. It has ability to respond in emergency promptly due to its presence within the affected
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Overcrowding in Emergency Departments across the Country Overcrowding in Emergency Departments Abstract: Emergency departments (ED’s) are considered a necessary component in the health care system. Many patients have access to this department 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. There has been an increasingly large volume of emergency room visits by both adult and pediatric patients up to 43% within the last 5 years. The overuse of the ED’s medical services across the nation is commonly referred
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July 7th Brings Tragedy Kortney Higgins Eng 101 x-1 Haney 11, September, 2013 Higgins 1 On June 7, 2013, a Ford Focus struck an old beat up Dodge minivan about five miles south of Macomb. This evening was intended to be a wonderful night, with meatloaf, mac 'n cheese, and green beans for dinner, Kara's favorite meal. Tragedy got in the way of a terrific night's plans; my sister and her boyfriend just happened to be aboard that Ford Focus that evening. “Ring, Ring, Ring.” I picked up
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Week 2 Joshua Wolfe 1. There are several issues that could be involved when resolving legal disputes in international business. The first one is who you are dealing with in the nation that you are doing business with. Not all countries are stable in leadership like the United States. Changes in other parts of the world happen rapidly and without notice. Even though you may have an agreement in place with that countries current laws after a change in leadership those laws may
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Pierce county ranges from a rocky shore to a lush, national forest with many lakes, rivers, and creeks in between. Overall, the county has 1794 square miles of land and 118 square miles of water, not including Puget Sound (Pierce County Department Of Emergency Management, 2010). Pierce County became well known in the late nineteen hundreds when the city of Tacoma became the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad – the first transcontinental railroad in the north. The introduction of this
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Evacuations and Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina . On September 1, 2005, with only twelve hours’ notice, various colleagues established a medical facility—the Katrina Clinic—at the Astrodome/Reliant Center Complex in Houston. By the time the resource facility closed about two weeks later, the Katrina Clinic medical staff had seen over 11,000 of the estimated 27,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees who sought shelter in the Complex. Herein, we designate the scope of this medical response, citing our major
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