Essays on Briefings

The shattering terrorist attacks and the causalities associated with them have resulted in the focus on security leadership issues. Terrorist attacks are often unexpected and the incidences bring panic and disruption to the organizations affected. The disruption makes it difficult to set up effective response plans because communication flow is disrupted making it difficult to coordinate response activities. The security leadership plan is based on being prepared and proactive in handling and responding to terrorist attacks through the establishment of a co-operative effort plan (Pischke & Hallman, 2008). The proactive approach is meant to enhance psychological preparedness which prevents battle ...

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Research in Nursing Practice Patient safety is one of the most important medical concerns in a surgical procedure. Surgical errors such as wrong side or site, wrong procedure, and/or wrong person, though occur rarely, are considered as highly devastating events. In the U.S., about 28% of procedure related adverse events were reported in three different hospitals in 2011. According to the National Patient Safety Agency, 129,419 cases of surgical errors occurred in England and Wales in 2007 (McDowell & McComb, 2014). Surgical errors resulted in different degrees of impairment or harm. Most frequently occurring problems associated with the surgical ...

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Research in Nursing Practice Abstract Patient safety is important not only for patient but also for medical community, and this safety includes the reduction of medical and surgical errors. In the last few years, researchers have started showing great interest in the use of checklists before performing a surgery to reduce surgical errors. Usually, those checklists include the time out process, i.e. a kind of break or pause, before starting any surgical procedure. Those checklists may also include the information of patient, information of site or side, and information of procedure. Before starting any operation, operating staff communicate with ...