Emergency Preparedness
What is an All-Hazards approach?
This type of preparedness helps healthcare workers reduce stress, protect their families, and remain available to focus on patient care during emergencies.
What is personal preparedness?
Within our health system, this concept includes, hospital/inpatient care, home care, rehabilitation, clinics or health centers, and ambulatory surgical center.
What is a multi-level healthcare system?
This ED issue is closely linked to inpatient bed shortages and longer hospital lengths of stay.
What is ED boarding?
Derived from a French term meaning to sort.
What is triage? (page 43)
Utilizes risk assessments to minimize damage and impact from a disaster.
What is the mitigation phase of the Disaster life Cycle?
This plan helps healthcare workers ensure their family and pets are safe so they can report to work and support patient care during a disaster.
What is a family emergency preparedness plan?
In our health system, this term applies to all staff across every level of care.
What is an essential employee?
These workforce challenges increase risk for errors and impact patient care quality in the ED.
What are fatigue and burnout among healthcare staff?
The critical focus is to prevent or decrease morbidity and mortality associated with acute of noncommunicable illnesses.
What is disaster epidemiology? (page 17)
The four phases of the disaster life cycle.
What is mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery?
These plans help healthcare workers report to work during emergencies when roads or public transit are disrupted?
What are transportation contingency plans?
These three factors are examples of hazards that can create severe disruptions for non-hospital healthcare sites.
What are severe weather, digital disruptions, and utility failures?
This is one of the trends that is placing increasing strain on hospitals nationwide, including longer patient stays and worsening crowding.
What is an aging population with more chronic illness or rising behavioral health needs, or increasing hospital crowding.
National repository of antibiotics, chemical antidotes, antitoxins, life-support medications, and medical-surgical supplies.
What is the Strategic National Stockpile (NPS) (page 46)
A framework that can be utilized to effectively response to complex incidents.
What is ICS or HICS?
Participating in drills and knowing your organization's emergency response plan are examples of this kind of preparedness.
The most effective strategy to increase effectiveness of health-care facility disaster response.
What is routinely practiced disaster drills and exercises? (page 48)
This operational challenge worsens ED crowding by delaying diagnostics, treatments, and patient disposition when critical supplies are unavailable.
What are supply chain shortages?
Mass homelessness, disruption of communications and health care systems, and substantial loss of businesses.
What are the widespread and long-lasting detrimental effects of flooding? (page 28)
Provides a clear pathway for communication and chain of command during disasters.
What is a benefit of HICS?
Your employer emergency plans, local emergency management, and the Red Cross are examples of these.
What are preparedness resources?
Modification of infection control recommendations and deployment of drinking water.
What are actions taken during a loss of water pressure incident within a hospital.
This term describes a healthcare system’s ability to rapidly expand services, space, staffing, and resources to meet a sudden increase in patient demand.
What is surge capacity?
This guidance ensures individuals who have access and functional needs receive lawful and equal assistance before, during, and after public health emergencies and disasters.
What is the FEMA Guidance on Planning for Integration of Functional Needs and Support Services in General Population Shelters. (page 60)