Health Care

Now that your team has selected your roles ( my role is Paramedics and I have attached the description of Paramedics) , we want you to think about how these roles could participate during the four stages of emergency management, as shown in the figure below. In your first post please provide an assessment of how your selected role could contribute to each of the four phases of emergency management (you must identify your role in your post). Please include specific examples of your role’s possible contributions. [hint: to provide this assessment, you will need to research your selected role so that you can address each stage of the disaster cycle with specific examples]. (6 to 9 sentences)
Also please write in a separate paragraph that How Paramedics could collaborate with Public Health Nurse during an emergency response and why you feel that such a collaboration could exist. Please start your post by identifying your role. (5 to 7 sentences)
I have attached the description of Paramedics and Public Health Nurse role

If it gets more 1 page, I will pay more.

ANSWER

Paramedics in Emergency Response Management

A paramedic is a highly skilled and highly trained health professional whose main focus is to offer advanced emergency medical care for emergent and critical patients in need of advanced life support. Paramedics hold a high role as the senior service healthcare professional during emergency situations. Paramedics during emergency response offer care to the injured, sick and vulnerable individuals in emergency situations. Therefore, the main role of paramedics is to offer assistance within emergency situations and facilitate emergency measures.

Emergency managers understand emergency management in four phases: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Mitigation entails actions that are taken to reduce or prevent the impact, consequences, or cause of disasters. Paramedics conduct a risk assessment to evaluate and identify the hazards. For instance, this includes building permanent barriers to control flooding after identifying and analyzing the risk. Therefore, they ensure a reduced effect of hazards. Preparedness entails training, planning, exercising for improvement activities. There is a need for paramedics to utilize ideas within multiple departments in the community to understand the risk and effectively plan. Paramedics create a supply list of equipment that is useful during a disaster.

The response phase entails the implementation of the disaster response plans to facilitate well-being and personal safety. Paramedics play a big role in conducting research and rescue missions. The goal of the paramedics at this stage is to lower the probability of more damage and to initiate the recovery process. The recovery phase entails improvement or recovery period, restoration of efforts with regular activities, and operations. For instance, during a flood, paramedics lead recovery actions such as sustaining mass care for the displaced persons.

Paramedics and Public health nurses collaborate during the development of disaster policies, planning, evaluating preparedness, training, and response drills. Public health nurses work in partnership with the paramedics in activities such as recovery, response, rescue, and search during the emergency response lifecycle. For instance, they care for they assess care needs and develop plans to offer acute and preventative care for populations at risk during a disaster. Therefore, paramedics and public health nurses effectively collaborate and contribute to emergency response and preparedness.