Disaster Basics
Planning focused on avoiding or reducing risks and hazards resulting from a disaster.
What is emergency preparedness?
This phase involves proactive planning efforts and evaluating potential vulnerabilities.
What is preparedness?
The three C's of disaster response.
What are communication, coordination, and collaboration?
Disaster epidemiology concentrates on the incidence, prevalence, and severity of these outcomes related to a disaster.
What are illness and injury?
During disasters, nurses may be first responders who provide emergency aid and this important activity.
What is triage?
A severe emergency involving death, injury, illness, and property damage that cannot be managed with routine resources or procedures.
What is a disaster?
Measures taken before an incident to reduce the harmful effects of a disaster.
What is mitigation?
The primary goal of the response phase is emergency relief and this priority.
What is saving lives?
This system collects population data during the impact, mitigation, and recovery phases.
What is the Emergency Information System?
The guiding principle of disaster triage.
What is the greatest good for the greatest number?
The three major phases of the disaster continuum.
What are preimpact, impact, and postimpact?
This type of disaster planning is broad in scope and addresses collaboration, agencies, organizations, and mutual-aid agreements.
What is systemic planning?
This phase focuses on stabilization, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and returning the community toward preimpact status.
What is recovery?
This surveillance system facilitates electronic transfer of public health surveillance data from health-care systems to public health departments.
What is the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS)?
This federal agency coordinates resources after a presidential disaster declaration.
What is FEMA?
The five areas of focus in emergency and disaster planning.
What are preparedness, mitigation, response, recovery, and evaluation?
These three factors are evaluated when preparing for a potential disaster event.
What are location, timing, and magnitude?
A sudden increase in patients at a health-care facility is called this.
What is a surge?
After a flood, this type of outbreak may occur because of disruption of sanitation.
What is a diarrheal outbreak?
This federal stockpile contains large amounts of pharmaceutical and medical supplies.
What is the Strategic National Stockpile?
The overarching framework for emergency preparedness and disaster management that is described as a continuous cycle.
What is prevention?
These activities are considered the best strategies for increasing the effectiveness of health-care facility disaster response.
What are routine disaster drills and exercises?
Name two strategies that can be used to increase health-care facility surge capacity.
What are discharging non-acute patients, canceling elective procedures, adding beds, or adding supplemental staff?
Two major health outcomes anticipated after wildfires.
What are respiratory illness and burns?
Name three vulnerable populations identified in the chapter.
What are older adults, children, persons with disabilities, non-mobile persons, non-English-speaking residents, women, incarcerated persons, or persons with mental health disorders?