Code Blue Emergent Care

Code Blue €“ Emergent Care

As a chief operating officer, you are responsible for a 15-bed Emergency Room (ER). You have received many complaints within the last year regarding inadequate patient care, poor ER management, long wait times, and patients being sent away because of lack of space, staff, or physicians to provide appropriate care.

Write an eight to nine (9) page paper in which you:

1. Thoroughly diagnose the root causes of the complaints about the clinic.
2. Thoroughly devise a strategic plan for overcoming the problems associated with the current ER.
3. Thoroughly justify how the Good Samaritan Law affects the appropriate treatment of the ER patients.
4. Thoroughly analyze how the different levels of emergency services:
a. basic,
b. intermediate,
c. transfer
d. and trauma should be prioritized in the strategic plan.
5. Thoroughly formulate a plan to treat
a. adults,
b..minors,
c. emancipated minors,
d. or incompetent adults in the new ER organization.
6. Thoroughly create a procedure to provide care to those who refuse to consent to treatment.