Mrs. McIntyre job activities include with the clients are crisis inventions, resources, resolve challenges, and develop strategies. She explained to me that she’s required to find resources for her clients. E.g. a client needs assistances with providing food for his/her family. It’s her job to provide the family with the resource needed that will be beneficial to the family. For this client Mrs. McIntyre informed that she utilized the resource from Department Human Services (DHS). Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). According to Arkansas Department of Human Services, “the purpose of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is to help end hunger and improve nutrition and health. Low income households who receive SNAP…
The following court case against Compton Unified School District shares that there is trauma/complex trauma that has been affecting students who are from “high poverty neighborhoods”. Students who experience “violence and loss” are likely to have trauma. Students who are exposed multiple events of “violence and loss” experience complex trauma. to the point where they can no longer cope with their disability in order reach their fullest academic potential. Trauma is similar to PTSD because students cannot focus alongside their peers when they have been a part of a horrific event. Within the text, Peter was shown as an ideal student who experienced complex trauma, due to the fact that he had been a victim of both sexual and physical trauma in…
In general, the TSI measures the response an individual had to a traumatic event not the stimulus (Fernandez, nd). However, the TSI has ten subscales including, anxious arousal, depression, anger/irritability, intrusive experiences, defensive avoidance, dissociation, sexual concerns, dysfunctional…
Football plays a great part in the United States. It is a part of our culture and is a part of the atmosphere in the fall when school is about to start. It is an amusing experience for a lot of people and their families. This is what make football a part of our culture. One thing to actually think about though is what is essentially happening to the children, the young adults, and athletes involved in this sport; they are growing older then, attending college or even playing professional football with head injuries. Understanding that in football there are many collisions of the head to somebody else’s head or other body parts. Although, the brain sits inside of a cranial vault, also known as the skull. Even wearing the best equipment…
I remember when I was younger I saw a car accident happen right in front of me. There was a lot of chaos happening with the paramedics rushing to see what happened. At that moment there was so much adrenaline going through everyone's bodies and I knew right then and there that I wanted to be in the medical field. Even though it’s going to take several years the end result will be worth it. I want to pursue a career in the medical field at the extraordinary Jefferson College of Health Sciences with the goal of becoming a Trauma Surgeon and ultimately saving people's lives who have been in traumatic accidents.…
There was always a desire in me to opt for a profession in which I could contribute to the society and help the people in need. What better way to do this than to be a paramedic who tirelessly works to aid people in distress. On joining this profession, one must learn to apply theoretical knowledge that to clinical and field situations. One must also learn many procedures and constantly update those skills. No day is a routine day. Every day, the shifts are different, the locations changed and clinical scenarios unique. The work pertains to attending calls such as trauma, cardiac and respiratory emergencies, substance overdose and many other situations and every call teaches some lesson. Apart from providing clinical help, paramedics have to act as efficient organisers and counsellors. Paramedics are often relied upon to control and direct emergency situations, this responsibility and challenging tasks is what draws me to become a practicing paramedic.…
There is a current equivalent nurse within the inpatient setting, which is known as the rapid response nurse. The rapid response nurse is a member of the medical team who responds to deteriorating patients outside of the ED. Their role has been shown to improve team dynamics, patient outcome and communication, be effective in leadership and rapidly identify the deteriorating patient (Gilligan, 2005; Jolley et al., 2007). It has also been identified that trauma nurse coordinators within the military setting have shown improved performance in trauma care by implementing clinical practice guidelines, improving patient care processes and refining policies (Fecura et al., 2008). Combining the rapid response nurse with the emergency trauma nurse role and introducing some of the military policies could further improve the leadership skills a trauma team needs in an emergency resuscitation situation.…
In this article response paper, I decided to review the article “7 Ways To Calm a Young Brain in Trauma.” This article focuses on how to relax a child’s mind who have experience trauma. The author thesis is to provide guidance to a teacher who has a student that has trauma and make them feel a part of the class. The author then discusses the seven ways that teachers can calm the students to get them through a day of learning.…
From all of the reading, I learnt that Artie’s father changed a lot his personality during the wartime and become a sarcastic, suspicious person with a little racial discrimination. These changes might happen with the reason of the trauma and experience of the history when he was maltreated and discriminated during the tough period. In Cathy Caruth’s article “Trauma and experience”, she described that trauma as a syndrome of people who cannot accept their impossible histories and generate the symptom of refusing possess the memory. “If PTSD must be understood as a pathological symptom, then it is not so much a symptom of the unconscious, as it is a symptom of history. The traumatized, we might say, carry an impossible history within them, or they become themselves the symptom of a history that they cannot entirely possess.”(Caruth, 194) In this quote, the author mentioned that these memory clips might lead people…
Whether it was a single event or occurred repeatedly over an extended period recently or in the more distant past, trauma can have a severe impact on the client and on their family members, friends, and co-workers.…
This paper first describes the types of critical incidents and other stresses experienced by law enforcement personnel. Many of these challenges affect all personnel who work in public safety and the helping professions, including police officers, firefighters, paramedics, dispatchers, trauma doctors, emergency room nurses, and psychotherapists (Miller, 1995, 1997, 1998a, 1998b, 1999, in press); however, the focus here will be on the stressors most relevant to police officers, criminal investigators, and other law enforcement personnel. Secondly, this article will describe the critical interventions and psychotherapeutic strategies that have been found most practical and useful for helping cops in distress. One of the worst effects of stress…
In this paper, I will review and implement recommendations based on the findings of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) regarding the training of hospital staff to respond to a mass casualty incident (MCI). I will give examples and situations that can affect the effectiveness of proper training and responses to a traumatic event in our city, county, state, or country.…
At a level one trauma center multiple patients come in each day either unstable or unable to communicate what has happened to them. Doctors are forced to treat these patients and potentially save their lives based on what they can see in front of them. Since the doctors have limited information, they have to base the patient’s treatment off their physical exam, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, pulse, breath sounds and numerous other medical practices. But that still leaves them with limited information about this patient’s condition, so what do they rely on? Diagnostic imaging, to quickly see the patient’s status and are able to provide lifesaving care. Radiography plays a critical role in the patients care, and it allows doctors to view…
* The notion of trauma alerts us to the duality of injury: it is both a wound to the body, the moment of the blow, and it’s internalized reception.…
The stab wound incident's core lessons have a lot in common with what I have learned so far. First thing is that not everything is how it seems. I learned to assess the patient initially and reassess him. Even if the patient looks okay at the moment, his condition might deteriorate. Second, I learned that I should assess the mechanism of injury, do every step and not miss the small thing like what the patient injured by. Third, take good history which can help in saving patient's lives in a lot of times. It should not only be taken but it also should be reported by the EMT in the hand-off report. Last but not least, I learned to make sure to follow what I was trained to do, like following the standing orders and contact the medical director in case of confusion or special situations. All of what things I have learned have not done by the trauma team on the stab wound incident and by the anesthesiologist in the potassium overdose story. All of these mistakes did not happen because of ignorance but because of ineptitude, situations complexity and…