NUR 2243 Exam 3
- During a mass casualty event, what is the responsibility of management to provide to staff?
Answer
Food, water, support
- When a hospital expects to receive a large number of casualties they will often
Answer
Discharge or transfer more stable pts (rehab, wound care)
Less stable pts (chest pain, resp issues, or infection) will stay at hospital
- When disaster is over and "stand down" order is given, what is man- agement's
responsibility?
Answer
Checking supplies and personnel to ensure there is enough for normal hospital functioning
- After mass casualty or trauma incidents, staff are constantly calling out of work and there is
tension between staff. What should management do?
Answer
- Arrange for stress debriefing; these are signs of staff PTSD
- After a mass casualty event, staff should be
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debriefed in confidential environ- ment where they can speak freely
- DMAT team is made up of and their purpose is to
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Civilian medical, paraprofessional, and support personnel deployed to disaster area with enough supplies and medical equipment to sustain operations for 72 hours; employed by government
- Red/emergent/class I
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- Immediate threat to life
- Ex
gunshot wound, resp distress, SOB, chest pain with diaphoresis
- Yellow/urgent/class II
Answer
- Can wait 20 mins-2 hrs
- Need quick tx, but not life-threatening
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elderly with cough and temp (new resp infection), fracture w/ good distal pulse, partial thickness burns, single spinal injury, abd pain
- Green/non-urgent/class III
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- Could wait several hours if needed without fear of deterioration
- Ex
homeless man with rash, sprain, colds, simple fractures, head laceration
- Black/class IV
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- Expected to die/already dead
- Ex
full thickness full body burn, massive head trauma, high cervical cord injury
**extensive resources not used for black tag pt
- A pt comes to the ED with cough and bloody sputum. Where should this pt be placed while
awaiting test results?
Answer
Negative pressure room; suspect TB
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