The Coast Guard, within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is charged with preventing loss of life, injury, and property damage in the maritime environment through its SAR mission. It maintains over 200 stations with various assets, such as boats and helicopters (depending on the station), along U.S. coasts and inland waterways to carry out this mission, as well as its other missions such as maritime security. Chapter 1 will review: the status of the Coast Guard's recapitalisation program; new technologies that could assist the Coast Guard; maintenance requirements of its ageing vessels; operating costs for the new vessels; and shoreside infrastructure needs and priorities. The Coast Guard's missions in the Arctic include: defense readiness, ice operations, marine environmental protection, and ports, waterways and coastal security. Chapter 2 discusses the Coast Guard's Arctic capabilities. Chapter 3 addresses the extent to which the Coast Guard has (1) a sound process for analysing the need for its boat stations and (2) taken actions to implement its boat station process results.

This book is primarily about securing your home against potential unwanted intruders and keeping your family safe.

"The rise in violent crime affecting my country stems directly from an increase in criminal behavior and farm attacks, resulting in loss of innocent lives in my country. The message in this book goes out to all innocent, law-abiding citizens of South Africa. It is time to take a stand and prepare yourselves against becoming victims of the lawlessness plaguing our country. The authorities themselves face great challenges, numerous obstacles, and insufficient support. As a result, we are losing the battle against all crime and, particularly, violent crime. It is now up to individual citizens to change their mind-set and become unbeatable adversaries of the criminal element.

I don’t advocate vigilantism or breaking the law in order to achieve this. What I suggest instead is that people need to develop the mental and physical skills to avoid violence in the first place and then, if necessary, use a level of violence higher than that which would be imposed on them in a conflict situation." - Craig B. Roseveare

Practice safe procedures when responding to highway incidents with HIGHWAY SCENE SAFETY. A valuable learning tool for emergency response safety courses or as a handy reference manual for the field, this book focuses on operational guidelines necessary to conducting effective highway management while on the scene of the incident. Emphasizing the need to reduce line of duty deaths for all emergency responders, this book covers pre-planning, the national incident command system, governing laws, interagency communications, personal protective clothing, roadway considerations and other topics required for a safe response.

EMS Safety and Risk Management is designed to assist EMS providers in the reduction of line-of-duty injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. For information on teaching and learning resources, please contact your Brady representative. Teaching and Learning Experience * Provides a framework for developing programs that will create an appropriate margin of health and safety during the performance of EMS duties. * Offers students a strong foundation in the areas of safety and health. ***** This title is available only through the Pearson Custom Library (PCL). To order, click here www.pearsoncustomlibrary.com. PCL allows customers to create customized textbooks, giving students a more engaging and affordable education. Customers also have the option of purchasing the full text without customization in the Pearson Custom Library. For more information about customization opportunities, refer to http://www.pearsoncustomlibrary.com. Because this program is print-on-demand, printing will not start until we receive a purchase order from your bookstore. Please place your book order with the bookstore as soon as possible to ensure timely delivery. Please allow 2-4 weeks for your book to print. Additional time is required for outside content and/or packaging with other components.

"Emergency Medical Services: Finance" is intended to be used as a resource for the application of finance principles in a managerial context. Written for non-financial managers, new managers, or professionals who aspire to become better managers, the text provides valuable finance knowledge that is easily incorporated into management processes. Encouraging critical-thinking skills, the text helps EMS managers gain an understanding of the "why's" and "how's" and the "rights" and "wrongs" of tracking finances through an EMS organization, develop a fiscally sound EMS program, and analyze business activity in order to inform sound decision making. *****This title is available only through the Pearson Custom Library (PCL). To order, click here www.pearsoncustomlibrary.com.
PCL allows customers to create customized textbooks, giving students a more engaging and affordable education. Customers also have the option of purchasing the full text without customization in the Pearson Custom Library. For more information about customization opportunities, refer to http: //www.pearsoncustomlibrary.com. Because this program is print-on-demand, printing will not start until we receive a purchase order from your bookstore. Please place your book order with the bookstore as soon as possible to ensure timely delivery.
Please allow 2-4 weeks for your book to print. Additional time is required for outside content and/or packaging with other components.

Emergency Response to Domestic Terrorism analyzes the emergency response to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
Terrorism is a complex threat, and the American government is expected to deter or intervene in every attack. For that reason, the government must be better prepared to respond to acts of terror. One critical element is to understand what constitutes an "effective response."
To answer this key question, the author examined the existing literature and interviewed thirty-one elite participants in the emergency response to the bombing. The result is a unique qualitative case study that analyzes the response efforts undertaken after the bombing to draw conclusions about their relative success or failure.
Emergency Response to Domestic Terrorism looks at the nature and interrelationship of bureaucratic structures involved in the response, the organizational networking between the response bureaucracy, and the impact of bureaucratic culture on the response.
The work contributes to the existing literatures in both emergency response and bureaucracy. First, theoretical arguments about bureaucracies and their function are put to the test as they are applied to a specific crisis situation. Second, interview materials with key individuals who were on the scene of this American terrorist disaster are provided. Third, the emergency response literature is examined to determine whether the Oklahoma City bombing exhibited the anticipated response challenges. In addition, the work provides insights into the extent to which response communities are familiar with federal response guidelines. The overall results of the study are applicable to emergency response to terrorist incidents and to natural disasters.
By bringing together the academic and the practical aspects of emergency response, the work will appeal to students, practitioners, and policymakers. Further, it will foster better understanding of public policy and public administration in general.

This Executive Report Takes You Step-By-Step Through The Process Of Developing Integrated Delivery Systems. You'll Learn Eleven Fundamental Building Blocks For Integration And How To Apply These Methods To Redesign And Improve Your Existing Processes And Systems.

As health systems divide and conquer, health care professionals are fi nding themselves in new employment situation -- working for larger org anizations or supervising new groups of employees. With this change co mes a need to take a new look at the laws that affect employee benefit s -- including ERISA, group health plans, COBRA, and more. Here's a co ncise briefing on the legal issues involved in health care employee be nefits administration, with specific references to statutes and court rulings that are relevant in the health care setting. A practical over view of a complex legal area.

Home Health Redesign introduces home health providers to integrated ca re delivery systems and shows how to capture and control costs and out comes, how to deal with staffing issues, and how to gain accreditation from all relevant organizations, including the National Council for Q uality Assurance. Changes in documentation, information management, an d marketing and billing are addressed. Implementation issues, maintain ing the restructured organization, and quality assessment and improvem ent strategies such as benchmarking are covered. An abundance of pract ical tools, such as tracking tools, orientation outlines, job descript ions, and examples of documentation and competency assessment and perf ormance tools support the text.

The first quality management handbook developed specifically for the h ome health care industry, this book provides a comprehensive program w ith step-by-step guidelines, ready-to-use models, charts, sample forms, questionnaires, surveys, letters, and reports everything needed to d esign, implement, and maintain an effective program. It includes vital information regarding OSHA and Joint Commission requirements and inte rnational standards, as well as auditing and statistical data collecti on and evaluation techniques. This book provides the framework for tra nsforming a home care company into a customer driven organization. Too ls and techniques are provided to establish unparalleled service excel lence throughout the delivery of care and subsequent business transact ions.

The all-in-one guide to a successful ambulatory care business This co mprehensive handbook presents effective methods of providing health ca re within the ambulatory care setting, including: information on how t o structure and organize a medical group, the role of the medical dire ctor; professional and technical nursing; the collaboration of physici ans and nurses; staffing and scheduling methodologies; quality assuran ce; utilization review; risk management; information systems; and much more.

You'll find the practical guidance you need to transition smoothly int o the managed care environment. You'll learn the pros and cons of prac ticing in a managed care setting, the daily life of managed care physi cians, the role of managed care in medical education and health care r eform. Discover how to take advantage of new opportunities and avoid p itfalls, balance cost consideration with clinical decision-making, and understand the case mix systems most frequently used in managed care. Written almost entirely by physicians, The Physician's Guide to Manag ed Care is a must for any physician interested in meeting future chall enges.

Hansten and Washburn, the AJN award-winning author team who brought us Clinical Delegation Skills for Nurses and The Nurse Manager's Answer Book, have produced a hands-on resource to help patient-care executive s and staff developers train and support nurses in making the needed c hanges in a restructured health care delivery environment. A systemati c educational program provides nurse leaders and trainers with practic al tools such as surveys, training agendas, learner outcomes, job desc riptions, and encouraging and illustrative accounts of real-life restr ucturing and training efforts.

With this volume, get an in-depth look at hospital-based ambulatory ca re. Articles on the planning and development of programs and services, emergency services, financial issues, and managerial issues make this volume a "must have" resource for administrators, ambulatory care pro fessionals and students as well. This book is attractively priced in s oft cover.

Guide to Clinical Resource Management is the first in a series of thre e handbooks. Clinical Resource Management (CRM) is the next stage in t he evolution of restructuring/reengineering. It involves advanced prac tice clinical case management, restructuring the quality and utilizati on departments, and creating multidisciplinary clinical service teams that cross the traditional boundaries of hospital departments, clinics, and physicians. The handbook details the design, implementation, and evaluation of a CRM program in an institution well advanced in restru cturing the delivery of acute care and offers a strategy for surviving and succeeding in a managed care environment.