Download or read book Limited Resource Command System written by James Steven Gowans and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) is an incident management system patterned after the publicly used Incident Command System. The Joint Commission requires all hospitals to use a type of incident management system, and the HICS meets this requirement. The HICS organization chart, which is the same as the National Incident Management System organization chart, outlines dozens of different positions, ranging from the Incident Commander (IC) to the front line workers. HICS is designed to be scalable to fit large or small emergencies, as well as adjusted for the number of personnel used. However, experience has shown small hospitals with limited personnel must adapt the HICS by combining roles and prioritizing responsibilities. A tool has been developed which combines the multiple HICS positions into a three-position command center. This tool, entitled Limited Resource Command System (LRCS), combines the roles and prioritizes the responsibilities of those three command center members. The purpose of this study was to compare the challenges and strengths of the LRCS with the traditional HICS Incident Management Team to determine if the LRCS is more applicable in small hospitals. The individual components of the LRCS, which are: dividing responsibilities and prioritizing tasks, were also evaluated to assess their appropriateness. The results of the study demonstrated that staff in small hospitals agree that HICS is difficult to manage in their hospitals due to the limited number of personnel available. The LRCS, though still challenging, was successful in helping to mitigate the challenges of the HICS and was felt to be more applicable in the small hospital settings.
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Download or read book The Basal Ganglia VI written by Ann M. Graybiel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the sixth in the IBAGS series, summarizes major contributions in clinical and basic research on the basal ganglia. The sixth meeting of the Society was held on Cape Cod, in the state of Massachusetts, USA, in October, 1998. Altogether 16 countries were represented by 227 participants. This volume contains papers contributed by participants. The focus of the sixth triennial IBAGS meeting, and of this volume, was to bring to gether leaders in basic and clinical science to address two sets of still-persisting questions in the field. The first set focuses on the functions of the basal ganglia in health and disease: What are the core functions of the basal ganglia and cortico-basal ganglia loops? How are these core functions disrupted in disorders affecting the basal ganglia? How do we account for the broad range of behaviors affected by basal ganglia disorders and for the increasing evidence that the basal ganglia influence cognitive as well as motor functions? These issues are addressed in the first five sections of the current volume, which summarize advances in the study of basal ganglia disorders based on studies in humans (Section 1), new results obtained with experimental animal models of basal ganglia disorders (Section 2), results of experiments on information coding in the basal ganglia (Section 3) and new information about functions of the basal ganglia related to learning and adaptive motor control (Section 4).
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