Hospital Emergency Management Committee
Healthcare Emergency Management Discussion Board Question
The assignment:
Develop a hospital emergency management committee. How is it structured?
What is their purpose and responsibilities?
Who should be on your EMC and why?
Introduction:
What do you envision when you hear the term Emergency Management Committee? Who sits in the chairs? Who SHOULD sit in the chairs? Speaking of chairs, who occupies the Chair’s chair? What qualifications should the members have? What is the EMC expected to do? Once again, this entity is far different today than it was in the early days of the hospital Disaster Committee.
Week Objectives:
Describe how to develop a healthcare emergency management committee.
Understand the roles and responsibilities of a healthcare emergency management committee.
Review the standards requirements regarding who should be included on EM Committees and discuss (ie; TJC, ACS Trauma Regs).
Reference to appropriate authoritative resources and official websites. Must be accessible online.Use New Times Roman 12 font with 1” margins and APA style. The answer should be at least 400 words.
I attached 2 co-students examples, but do your original work. Also, the primary book attached.
Answer preview
Structure of the Hospital Emergency Management Committee
Hospital Emergency management committee for hospital K is a group of twenty representatives from different departments that are involved in formulating strategies and initiatives all focused on ensuring adequate preparedness of the hospital to respond to risks. The committee involves different expertise to contribute to developing an operational emergency plan. The committee has a meeting once in every month that is mandatory to all representatives, and in case a representative can’t…
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