Comprehensive Care Plan for Hampton Road Virginia

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Comprehensive Care Plan for Hampton Road Virginia

Concerns

Hampton Roads is a distinct area where the residents communally consider themselves interconnected by a shared history, a common identity, and mutual interests. However, the inhabitants of the area share common concerns. Some concerns are, Hampton Roads region has the highest crime rates in 2010, in Virginia, which saw rates of 343 violent crimes per 100,000 people and 3,528 property crime, an estimated 10 to 15% (44,000 to 66,000) of local children in Hampton Roads have asthma, air quality for pollutants exceed ozone limits in Virginia, cancer death rates remain higher than the overall average for Virginia, 10.8% suicide rate in Virginia, infant death rate is the second highest in Virginia, high sexually transmitted diseases among the youth and approximately 14% of the region's residents under 65 years of age are uninsured.

Disasters

A number of disasters might occur in the Hampton Roads Virginia. Considering the geographical location of the region there is a possibility of tsunami, in case of hurricanes. These disasters are quite common in the region because of the instability of geological belts and the closeness to open sea. In such cases the U.S. Navy prudently asks all ships in the naval base at Hampton Roads, Virginia, to leave the port. There is a chance of increase in killing and permanent disabilities because of the increased crime rate; it is probable that street crimes could result in killings (Gad-el-Hak, 2008). Also, the rate of mortality may increase for asthmatic patients as the air pollution has considerably increased in the region.

Handling Disasters

Natural disaster can be handled effectively if the authorities take immediate action in evacuation and are directly in contact with weather forecasting authorities. Also, it is important to establish emergency care providers and paramedics on the affected areas. However, it is important to establish a comprehensive care plan which will be discussed in the following sections. Considering the case of crime, law enforcing agencies should be actively involved in managing and preventing criminal actions. It is imperative that the role of nursing should be highlighted for prevalent ailments in the region.

Disaster Supplies Kit

The hostile environment where operations are carried out requires a capacity for adaptation typical of battlefield medicine, identification of priorities characterize emergency medicine, taking charge of health of a large number of victims must take account of medicine mass, and the concept of victim as seen in its entirety is peculiar to global medicine. Advance planning should start from a typical applied field of medicine doctrine, maintaining a hierarchy of tasks and essentiality of the medical treatments characteristic of war.

The unique aspect of every scientific discipline is the use of operational tools; those that characterize disaster medicine are three:

Strategy: the art of devising contingency plans;

Logistics: the set of personnel, equipment and materials aimed at the realization of the plans;

The tactic: the application of the plans with the performance of the chain of rescue.

Comprehensive Care Plan

Before proposing some methodological suggestions concept of care ...