What should you do (or have you done) when a burglar enters your house?
Grab a phone and flee the house.Seriously.If you are in a situation where:You are at home alone or with childrenBurglars have gotten past your dog (if you have one) and your alarm system (again..if you have one)They decided to enter a home without making certain that it is not occupied at first.Then you are in a great deal of danger.You have been surprised and most people lack the necessary training to effectively deal with a surprise home invasion. Your best bet is to grab a phone (I always keep my phone on me) and exit out a window or a back door. You can then call the police who, in most areas, will respond within minutes.If you cannot flee for some reason, then you should still grab a phone and call the police. Leave the phone on the floor if the intruders capture you so that the operator/dispatcher will realize how serious your situation is and will send help immediately. If you are unarmed, don’t resist as the majority of burglars simply want cash or items to sell to purchase drugs.if you are armed or you can get to a weapon within seconds, then head for an interior room (again with a phone) lock the door and call the police. If the intruders try to follow you or break in (NOTE: MAKE CERTAIN THAT IT ISN’T THE POLICE) use your weapon to defend yourself and any of your family members.Life, yet again, is not a film or a television series. Do not:Shoot wildly before you have confirmed your target Go from room to room “clearing” your house. Leave that to the police.Chase the assailant from your home with your weapon in hand, regardless of what they might have stolen. An armed person running from a home will garner far more attention from the police than an unarmed one and you may be shot (accidentally) by the police if you turn abruptly towards them with a weapon in your hand.Shoot a burglar outside of your home from a window. There is no threat to you if they are outside and you may be prosecuted for doing this.Answer the door when the police arrive with your weapon still in your hand. You may be mistaken for the intruder and shotGet out of the houseCall the police.Wait for them to come and take a reportCall your insurance agent.
One of the medical assistants receives a needle stick. As office manager what should you do?
There is a whole set of things you need to do for this. The facility should have a policy manual stating all the steps--so this sounds like a homework question---> the answer would be to check the policy manual. The person should be offered hepatitis, HIV screening & surveillance for 1 year; they should also be offered prophylactic antiviral meds (All this at no cost); the needle stick must go on a report form as well. Hep B shot should be offered if not already given. Testing also on the person the needle was in, if known. Safety procedures are also to be reviewed and remedial action to be taken to prevent occurrence in future. I think there are a FEW more--OSHA has a list.
If someone slaps you, what would you do?
This has happened to me. I clearly remember it, as I was both deeply hurt physically as well as utterly scared.I was about 14 years of age and we were a group of about 10 to 12Three of us were teenagers and others were either younger kids or older people (young adults) about 19–20 years of age.We were joking around and chatting, when one of the other teenagers, dared me to throw the cap of an older guy (about 20 years of age) to the floor.He was wearing the cap and he was right there. He saw that I was given a dare. I knew him and used to sometimes hang out with his friends.I smile at him, and in jest took his cap and threw on the floor. I of course immediately picked it up and tried to give it back to him.For the life of me, I have no idea what came over him, but he slapped me very hard. Hard enough that my 14 year old self, fell on the floor because of the impact. I was too afraid to make a sound and just gathered myself and stood back up.What happened thereafter, is something I find very difficult to understand to this day. The kids my age and younger were obviously very scared and didn’t say anything.However, the older ones (both men and young women) started laughing their ass off, clapping and applauding the fact that the their friend slapped someone.It is something that tells me that my world as I was growing up, was deeply unfair and clearly not the best place to grow up.I am not sure if my gender played any role here. I am quite certain that the fact that I was tiny, in front of him, definitely played a role. He knew I would never hit back. And I didn’t. I didn’t do anything in fact. I was quite humiliated and thereafter, I never spoke with either him or any of his friends. I never acknowledged their presence.I lived in that place for perhaps another year or so. I have never seen them after I moved away.And that is my answer to your question. If someone slaps me, if the person is bigger than me, I am not likely to do anything. I will just try to get away from there.The adult me now, might think of taking a legal action but the lawyer in me will know that Indian courts, a case of a slap, isn’t worth it.I will and always do, everything I can, to not put myself in such a situation in the first place.