Emergency Management Operation Of Emergency Department

Emergency management Operation Emergency management operation deals with executive functions that create the framework for managing the community disaster response and recovery plans. It requires proactive, comprehensive, progressive, risk-driven, integrated, collaborative, coordinated, flexible, and professional approaches (Principles of Emergency Management, 2007, p.4). City emergency department is responsible for handling all the emergency response in the city. The department has to put together necessary emergency actions such as mitigation and prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery that will help to protect lives and properties during disaster emergencies. This presentation will outline and describes the National Incident†¦show more content†¦For instance, disaster causes serious damages to our critical infrastructures such as roads, bridges, facilities, even lives and properties ((Suryanto, Kuncoro, 2012). Plans of action, to deal with unexpected occurrence of incidents are part of emerge ncy management. These actions are also part of the National Preparedness goal for the â€Å"whole community–individuals, families, communities, the private and nonprofit sectors, faith-based organizations, and state, local, tribal, territorial, insular area and Federal governments to prepare for all types of emergencies† (Federal Emergency Management Agency, n. d). It includes five mission areas of such as preventing, protecting against, mitigating, responding to, and recover from incidents of national significance (Federal Emergency Management Agency, n. d). Cities and business shall have an emergency plan or incident management system that will help in the management of resources during incidents (Federal Emergency Management Agency, n. d). The National Incident Management System (NIMS) provides guidelines on how the city and community emergency plans will integrate to the national plan for effective nationwide response and recovery. But NIMS also, specified that loc al jurisdictions will retain command, control, and authority over response activities in their jurisdictional areas during incident response (U.S. Department of Homeland Security 2008). The National Incident Management