Categories/Classification
of Disasters
of Disasters
Floods, Hurricanes and floods. (Category)
What are examples of natural disasters?
Mitigation, Planning, Response and Recovery.
What are the 4 phases of the disaster cycle?
Process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on severity of their condition or the likelihood of recovery with or without treatment.
What is triage?
Proximity to the event, previous psychological stability, history of trauma, and importance and depth of event.
What are factors in determining the potential long-term manifestations as a result of a disaster?
To prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.
What is the American Red Cross?
An incident that requires regional efforts and mutual aid from surrounding communities. (Classification))
What is a Level II disaster?
Efforts to decrease the loss of life and property by lessening the impact of a disaster.
What is mitigation?
Gloves, gowns, masks, and goggles.
What are examples of PPE?
Provide attention, compassion, empathy and sympathy.Speak in non-medical terms.Reinforce emotions and reactions are normal.
What is included in the CDC guidelines for nurses responding to disasters?
A federal program created to support states in establishing standardized volunteer registration programs for disasters and public health and medical emergencies.
What is the Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals?
Earthquakes, tsunamis and pandemics. (Classification)
What are examples of Level III disasters?
Emergency alert systems, structural and design improvements and evacuations.
What are examples of the mitigation phase of disaster response?
An evidence-based approach to help children, adolescents, adults, and families in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism.
What is Psychological First Aid?
A structured process for use with first responders after exposure to a traumatic event.
What is critical stress debriefing?
Our mission is to pre-identify, train, and organize volunteer health professionals to render services with local emergency response programs.
What is the Medical Reserve Corp?
Worldwide cases of the same strain of influenza virus previously unidentified in the human population.
What is a Pandemic?
The plan, exercising, practicing, and revising the plan including community and emergency resources.
What is Disaster Planning?
Command, operations, logistics, planning, and finance.
What are the 5 functional units of the Incident Command System (ICS)?
To increase nurses' awareness of their roles and responsibilities in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive threats (CBRNE) events and providing nurses with comprehensive emergency preparedness ON-LINE training.
What is the National Nurse Emergency Preparedness Initiative (NNEPI)?
These incidents primarily effect morbidity and mortality to individuals while the community infrastructure remains relatively intact.
What is a mass casualty incident?
An on-scene emergency management system.
What is the Incident Command System (ICS)?