EMERGENCY SITUATIONS
HSA 405 week 5 discussion 1
Week 5 Discussion 1
“Emergency Situations” Please respond to the following:
- Suppose you work in a hospital that just received twelve patients from a disaster event in your community. Your hospital is able to treat and provide necessary surgical services to those that require surgery. However, five patients are refusing care and requesting to be transferred to another hospital for the same services. Suggest the course of action that the hospital should take to meet the standards of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) related to public health in your community. Provide at least two (2) specific examples to support your rationale.
- Imagine that an unidentified individual with a gunshot wound has been transported to the emergency room. After taking the victim into surgery, the medical team realizes the individual is a minor. Examine the kind of consent that the team should obtain, and determine the resources that they could utilize in order to obtain this consent.
my state is Pennsylvania
Answer previewThe incident in question is a disaster and an emergency situation. According to the standards of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), the hospital is required to treat a patient until he or she is stable for transfer the moment he or she sets foot into an emergency room. In this situation, as hospital personnel, I would sit with the five patients aside and rationally explain to them that the law requires conduction of a medical evaluation until it is assured that a patient is stable; then and only then can a transfer request be heard. The priority of the hospital must always be to ensure every patient receives the required Medicare to minimize the risks to their lives (Terp, Seabury, Arora, Eads, Lam, and Menchine, 2017)…(400 words)