Health & Medical Question

Thismodule’sreadingsincludethesethree articles, and a NIMS and ICS PowerPoint is posted here as well.:

• “NIMS and the Incident Command System” (from FEMA) offers an overview of how the best parts of the various incident management systems developed after the wildfires in CA in 1970 were combined and developed into today’s NIMS/ICS.
• “Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-5” contains a set of instructions or directives to a number of federal agencies that established requirements and authorities needed to support homeland security. This particular Directive ordered the creation, support and use of the National Incident Management System
• ics organizational structure and elements.pdf

National Incident Management System (NIMS) PowerPoint

The_National_Incident_Management_System.ppt

What is ICS and how is it used?

Introduction to Incident Command System(4).pptx

Source:

http://www.fema.gov/txt/nims/nims_ics_position_pap…

https://www.dhs.gov/publication/homeland-security-presidential-directive-5

The assignment as Real-Life Situation

Learning Outcomes: 1, 3

For this Assignment, write a 2–3-page paper (No more than 3 pages) in which you address the following:

Using a real-life situationor event you have been involved in, describe how the principles ofincident command were, or could have been used, to successfully navigatethe event to its conclusion. If the principles ofincident command were utilized, were they used successfully? If not,how would you have handled it differently?

Format:

All papers should be formatted according to the following:

• Times new roman
• 12 point font
• 1.5 spacing

Citing Sources:

Sources should be cited properly using the APA style.

Evaluation Criteria:

The paper will be evaluated using the following criteria:

Inyour reflection journal entry for this week, address the following in2-3 paragraphs, integrating the knowledge you have gained during thisweek:Using the Incident Command System can seem like a daunting task to the uninitiated. Why do you think this is so? What can be done to ease concerns and make ICS easier to understand and use?This entry is worth 10 points and is required.