Disasters
What are types of natural disasters?
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created through this act, consolidating more than 20 separate agencies.
What is the Homeland Security Act of 2002?
Prevention, Preparedness, Response, and Recover
This biodefense program is an early warning system for biothreats that uses an environmental sensor system to test the air for biological agents in several major metropolitan areas.
What is BioWatch?
At the individual level, this process of separates casualties and allocates treatment on the basis of the individuals’ potentials for survival.
What is triage?
In the United States, increases in population and development in this type of area vulnerable to natural disasters have led to sharply increased insurance payouts.
What are coastal areas?
Provides coordinated federal assistance to supplement state, local, and tribal resources in response to public health and medical care needs.
What is the Emergency Support Function 8: Public Health and Medical?
The sustained ability of a community to withstand and recover from adversity.
What is community resilience?
A program to develop and produce new drugs and vaccines as countermeasures against potential bioweapons and deadly pathogens.
What is Project BioShield?
The first line of defense in disease outbreak.
What is public health?
Terrorism, Fires, Bombing, Pollution
What are types of human made disasters?
This was established to provide a common language and structure enabling all those involved in disaster response to communicate with each other more effectively and efficiently.
What is the National Incident Management System (NIMS)?
This agency coordinates comprehensive, all-hazard planning at the national level, ensuring a menu of exercises and plan templates to address plausible incidents in any given community.
What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)?
Being reluctant or refusing to leave the scene until the work is finished; denying needed rest and recovery time; feelings of overriding stress and fatigue; engaging in unnecessary risk-taking activities; difficulty communicating thoughts, remembering instructions, making decisions, or concentrating; engaging in unnecessary arguments; having a limited attention span; and refusing to follow orders
What are symptoms that may signal a need for stress management assistance?
Nurses working as members of an assessment team need to report accurate information to facilitate situational awareness. A lack of or inaccurate information regarding the scope of the disaster and its initial effects can contribute to this.
What are mismatched resources and increased morbidity?
With disasters in developing communities, these groups of people are excessively affected and least able to rebound.
What are the poor, elderly, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and women and children?
Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-21) established a national strategy that enables a level of public health and medical preparedness through these for critical components.
What are biosurveillance, countermeasure distribution, mass casualty care, and community resilience?
A population-based practice model that encompasses 3 levels of practice (community, systems, and individual/family) and 16 public health interventions. Each intervention and practice level contributes to improving population health, providing a practice foundation.
What is the Public Health Nursing Intervention Wheel?
This entity is responsible for the core recovery of health and social services, including educating the community and response workers about the long-term effects of a post-disaster environment.
What is the Department of Health and Human Services?
In disaster surge the nurse may no longer be focused on the care of individual clients, but on the entire community. In extreme conditions, traditional ethics of doing the best for every patient may shift to this framework where nursing’s goal becomes to do the “greatest good for the greatest number of individuals”
What is the utilitarian framework?
Any natural or human-made incident that causes disruption, destruction, and/or devastation requiring external assistance.
What is a disaster?
This entity funds public health and hospital preparedness programs, medical countermeasures under the BioShield Project, and enhances the authority of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
What is the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act (PAHPRA)?
In this phase, nurses promote environmental health by identifying environmental hazards and serving on the public health team for mitigation purposes. Public health nurses in particular are involved with organizing and participating in mass prophylaxis and vaccination campaigns to prevent, treat, or contain a disease.
What is the prevention stage?
This phase begins almost immediately after a disaster occurs.
What is the recovery phase?
In catastrophic disasters, nurses are involved in providing assessment and referral, health care needs (e.g., prescription glasses, medications), first aid, and appropriate dietary adjustment; keeping client records; ensuring emergency communications; and providing a safe environment in this type of setting.
What is a shelter?