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NUR 213 Emergency Preparedness
- Disaster
Answer an event in which illness or injuries exceed resource capabilities of a health care facility or community due to destruction and devastation.
- internal disaster
Answer any event inside a health care facility or campus that could endanger patients or staff.Creates a need for evacuation or relocation.
- internal disaster requires?
Answer extra personnel and the activation of the facility's emergency preparedness and response plan (Emergency Management Plan)
- Examples of Internal disaster
Answer fire, explosion, and violence
- Most important outcome for any internal disaster?
Answer maintain patient, staff, and visitor safety
- External disaster
Answer event outside the health care facility or campus, somewhere in community, which requires the activation of the facility's emergency management plan.The number of facility staff is not adequate for the incoming emergency department.
- Examples of External disaster
Answer natural
Answer hurricane; technologic
Answer biologic terror attack
- Major difference between "multi-casualty" and "mass casualty" events.
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Answer - number and severity of victims or casualties involved.
- Multi-casualty event
Answer can be managed by a hospital using local resources
- mass casualty event
Answer overwhelms local medical capabilities and may require the collaboration of multiple agencies and health care facilities to handle the crisis. State, regional, and/or national resources needed
- During a fire, what is a nurses priority?
Answer remove any pt or staff from immediate danger of the fire of smoke. (Pt safety)
- During a fire, there is a pt on life support. What is the nurse's responsibil- ity?
Answer maintain their respiratory status manually until removed from the fire area.
- True or False? During a fire, a nurse can direct ambulatory patients to help push wheelchair
patients out of danger.
Answer True
- True or False? If needed during a fire, have one or two staff members move patients on
blankets or carry them.
Answer True. But do not risk injury to you or staff members while moving pts or attempting to extinguish the fire.
- To maintain ongoing disaster preparedness for hospitals
Answer Joint Commission requires hospital personnel participate in emergency/disaster annually.
- What event changed hospital and community disaster planning efforts?
Answer - 9/11
- What became the focus of public health risk?
Answer Weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
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