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Challenge: Local emergency and changing priorities

Challenge: Local emergency and changing priorities

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Challenge: Local emergency and changing priorities

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- In this challenge, you're faced with a situation that will significantly impact your project activity, but it's totally out of your control. Medical facilities are often a 24 by 7 environment that can change drastically in a matter of a few minutes. Using the information in this course and your personal experience with healthcare projects, consider your response to the following scenario. You and your team are in the process of installing equipment and new wiring adjacent to the hospital's emergency room where triaged and evaluation activities are performed, suddenly, there's a lot of commotion and hospital personnel are moving quickly and intently around you, one of the emergency room staff then enters the room and says, "We need this room now, I need you to move out of here and take the equipment and cables you have lying everywhere out too, there's been a 30 car pileup on the highway, many people are injured and they're…

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