Public Health Nursing Practice and the Disaster Management Cycle: Chapter 22

NUR 436: Comm in Population Health; MCUSON; Dr. Watts

what is any incident that causes disruption, devastation, and/or destruction requiring external assistance

a disaster

natural disaster and bioterrorism often occur with no warning or little time for preparation, which can be the cause for _____ rate of casualties

higher

in the case of _____, look for evidence of an unusual illness in a population

bioterrorism

list 4 most vulnerable populations to disasters

• children

• older adults

• persons with disabilities

• non-English speaking individuals

elderly populations are highly concerned/fearful at the loss of _____ following a disaster

independence

what develops a nationwide all-hazards approach to domestic incident management

National Incident Management System (NIMS)

Safety of _____ and _____ is key for individual survival

food; water

***When organizations, churches and others respond to disasters they often request water donations to meet some of the immediate needs. The food and water supplies have been compromised.

what is preparing for a disaster to lessen the impact called

prevention

medications and other items needed during disaster are collected by governments and agencies to be used for these purposes. what is this called

national strategic stockpile

the national strategic stockpile was first used during the response to _____

Katrina

***We also heard about the lack of stockpile supplies during the COVID regarding ventilators. The ventilators were needed all over the world and there were not enough in all the countries. Our own UMMC doctors designed and built ventilators doubling UMMC’s supply.

_____ includes personal, professional and community measures

preparedness

***Personal- Red Cross recommends a response plan, create a kit, and be informed. The kits can be stored at home, in your car, or workplace, wherever you may be in need of it.

_____ _____ creates effective plans for response to disasters. These plans should be flexible, realistic and easy to implement.

community preparedness

federal responders experience stress too. _____ on stress management techniques are required

education

Also consider ways to limit stress in victims. For example use _____ _____ techniques as triage is conducted, give them something to think about (hold pressure here, walk to that space and wait there)

stress reductions

_____ _____ will use triage techniques

first response

_____ training helps the responder understand how to provide treatment based on the victims potential for survival.

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