One morning there is an accident with a large bus of elderly men and women who are going to Indianapolis for the day. The police call the Emergency Room to say that there are 25 people on the bus, many are injured, and they will be arriving at the Emergency Room in 20 minutes.
Facts:
SCCH Emergency room has 1 doctor, 3 nurses, and 7 rooms with beds. The hospital has a disaster plan where employees who are not working can be called and asked to come in if there is an emergency.
People who are already at work and are able to help can be assigned the less injured patients.
Triage is a method of sorting people into groups to treat them:
1) Walking Wounded: people who are injured, but are well enough to walk
2) Serious: people who are too sick to walk, but are breathing ok, their heart is beating ok, and they are not having a lot of bleeding.
3) Critical: people who are alive, but having trouble breathing, or with their heart beating, or bleeding a lot, unconcious.
Questions to answer: (review the scenario)
1) What should you do first? Can 1 doctor and 3 nurses take care of 25 people at the same time?
2) Where will you put all the patients? Options?
3) Now, you have 3 doctors and 16 nurses. How will everyone know what to do? What is the best way to use the staff?
Finally, Your patients start arriving. Organize the following people according to where they should go:
1) a man who is having a very hard time breathing
2) a woman who walked in and has hurt her shoulder
3) a man whose head is bleeding and he won't wake up; he is breathing.
4) a man with a broken leg; can't walk
5) a woman who is not hurt, but is having trouble breathing because she is scared
6) a woman whose heart is beating very fast
7) a man with a cut on his arm; it is not bleeding right now
8) a woman who is crying, her legs both hurt, and she can't walk
9) a woman with an injured wrist
10) a man with a cut on his forearm that is bleeding a little
11) a woman whose neck and back hurt
12) a woman who is bleeding from her chest and just stopped breathing
13) 5 women with neck pain only
14) 8 men who say they are fine, but were told to come in and get checked out.
Now that you have placed your patients where they belong, do you need to adjust your doctors and nurses at all?
Final report?
Facts:
SCCH Emergency room has 1 doctor, 3 nurses, and 7 rooms with beds. The hospital has a disaster plan where employees who are not working can be called and asked to come in if there is an emergency.
People who are already at work and are able to help can be assigned the less injured patients.
Triage is a method of sorting people into groups to treat them:
1) Walking Wounded: people who are injured, but are well enough to walk
2) Serious: people who are too sick to walk, but are breathing ok, their heart is beating ok, and they are not having a lot of bleeding.
3) Critical: people who are alive, but having trouble breathing, or with their heart beating, or bleeding a lot, unconcious.
Questions to answer: (review the scenario)
1) What should you do first? Can 1 doctor and 3 nurses take care of 25 people at the same time?
2) Where will you put all the patients? Options?
3) Now, you have 3 doctors and 16 nurses. How will everyone know what to do? What is the best way to use the staff?
Finally, Your patients start arriving. Organize the following people according to where they should go:
1) a man who is having a very hard time breathing
2) a woman who walked in and has hurt her shoulder
3) a man whose head is bleeding and he won't wake up; he is breathing.
4) a man with a broken leg; can't walk
5) a woman who is not hurt, but is having trouble breathing because she is scared
6) a woman whose heart is beating very fast
7) a man with a cut on his arm; it is not bleeding right now
8) a woman who is crying, her legs both hurt, and she can't walk
9) a woman with an injured wrist
10) a man with a cut on his forearm that is bleeding a little
11) a woman whose neck and back hurt
12) a woman who is bleeding from her chest and just stopped breathing
13) 5 women with neck pain only
14) 8 men who say they are fine, but were told to come in and get checked out.
Now that you have placed your patients where they belong, do you need to adjust your doctors and nurses at all?
Final report?
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