Disaster Basics
Term for a serious disruption that exceeds a community’s ability to cope.
What is a disaster?
In this phase a nurse distributes emergency medications and fluids.
What is the response phase?
Term for the intentional release of biological agents to cause harm.
What is bioterrorism?
This triage system stands for Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment.
What is START?
A system used by health departments to detect potential disease outbreaks or public health threats early, often before diagnoses are confirmed in real time.
What is syndromic monitoring?
These disasters are caused by weather, geologic, underground, or epidemiological events.
What are natural disasters?
In this stage a nurses arranges for mental health counseling for PTSD after a hurricane.
What is the recovery phase?
The highest priority agents, posing a risk to national security because they are easily transmitted and have high mortality rate (smallpox, botulism, anthrax, tularemia, viral hemorrhagic fevers (Ebola), and plague.
What are Category A agents?
Patients with delayed care needs are tagged this color.
What is yellow?
A standardized, on-scene emergency management system used to coordinate response during disasters and emergencies.
What is an Incident Command System (ICS)?
These disasters result from human activity, for example a large oil spill contaminating water or a mass shooting in a school.
What are a man-made (technological, social, and environmental) disasters?
In this stage a nurse promotes stockpiling of PPE, IV fluids, and emergency supplies.
What is the preparedness phase?
Skin exposure to agents is called this route.
What is direct contact (dermal or subcutaneous exposure?
Patients who can walk are tagged this color.
What is green?
A systematic process used by healthcare organizations, public health departments, and emergency management agencies to identify potential hazards, assess the level of risk they pose, and prioritize preparedness planning
What is a Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA)?
The integration of emergency response plans throughout the life cycle of a disaster event.
What is disaster mangement (DM)?
A community health nurse works with local officials to require elevated homes in flood-prone neighborhoods in this phase.
What is the mitigation step of the disaster management cycle/continuum?
Ingestion is this type of agent delivery.
What is water and food contamination?
Patients with life-threatening but treatable injuries are tagged this.
What is red?
A central location where public information is coordinated and shared during an emergency or disaster.
What is a Joint Information Center (JIC)?
The nurse specialty experience preferred for disaster nursing.
What is emergency department nursing practice?
Nurses determine if triage was accurate (red/yellow/green tagging effectiveness) during this phase.
What is the evaluation phase?
Releasing agents into heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems to spread through buildings.
What are simple dispersal delivery methods for airbone biological agents?
Patients with no respirations after airway repositioning are tagged this.
What is black?
Provides a structure for managing any type of disaster, incorporating various public and private agencies. The goal is to have effective communication and a clear chain of command to manage disasters.
What is the National Incident Management System (NIMS)?