Instruction
Assignment:
1. Read the attached chapter.
2. Answer the questions below in your own words in a manner that demonstrates your understanding of the principles discussed. You may use other resources so long as they are cited in your answers to each question.
a. Define temporal demand analysis and relate how it impacts an EMS organizations ability to determine proper ambulance levels during the course of a day?
b. Define deterministic ambulance deployment modeling and its limitations regarding correct deployment of ambulances to maintain effective coverage levels and response time?
c. Compare and contrast a static deployment plan versus a hybrid ambulance deployment plan?
d. Describe seasonality in demand analysis and its potential impact when performing a temporal demand analysis?
e. An ambulance in your organization has an average time on task of 90 minutes. During the preceding 12 hours, this ambulance was in service the entire time and transported four patients. What is the UHU for this unit?
f. Define UHU buffer and its impact on an EMS system to adequately meet demand for service based on the number of units deployed into the system?
g. Identify the reasons for lost unit hours in an EMS organization and their potential impact on your system performance, then suggest what might be done to mitigate the situation?
h. Define GIS and its impact on ambulance deployment planning and demand analysis?
i. Based on your understanding of the bodys circadian rhythm, define negative impacts to health of EMS professionals when shifts are improperly designed?
Instructions:
3. Requires the student to research various definitions of Leadership, Management and Supervision.
4. Requires a direct answer to each question posed along with fact/opinions supporting each answer. Each response shall be no more than 2 type written pages per question.
5. The student will cite/list any articles, books, trade journals they reviewed in the preparing the answers to each question inclusive of the journal or source, author and page numbers.