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Any natural or human-made hazardous event that disrupts the functions of a community and causes hardships for community members.
What is a Disaster?
Earthquakes, tornadoes, and tsunamis are all examples of....
What are natural disasters?
Terrorism, bioterrorism, and nuclear power plant leaks are all examples of....
What are human-made disasters?
Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery are all phases of....
What is the Disaster Management Cycle?
The process of separating causalities by level of acuity quickly and allocating treatments based on the victim's potential for survival.
What is triage?
A nurse puts a RED triage tag on a young female patient from an airplane crash signifying her category in a disaster.
What is the IMMEDIATE category?
This level of prevention assists the "at risk" for illness population with the goal of early detection and treatment.
What is secondary prevention?
This type of nurse focuses on addressing social determinants of health with a goal of decreasing health inequities.
What is the community health nurse?
This is the third phase of emotions that is common when dealing with disaster and it involves disappointment with the slow recovery.
What is disillusionment?
A triage nurse is asked to tag all deceased individuals with the proper triage tag, the color is.....
What is BLACK?
The phase of the disaster management cycle in which the nurse assesses the condition of buildings and community structures, assesses the integrity of contained gases and chemicals, and identifies the "at risk" and vulnerable populations within the community.
What is the Prevention Phase?
This nongovernmental organization is primarily responsible for managing shelters in disaster situations in our country.
What is The American Red Cross?
The stages of Heroic, Honeymoon, Disillusionment, Reconstruction.
What are the emotional phases experienced during a disaster?
Federal governmental organization that provides resources when the local and state resources have been exceeded.
What is Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)?
The level of prevention that includes strategies to prevent illness, such as hand hygiene and immunizations.
What is primary prevention?
The name of a set of objectives that relates to improving the number of people who have and are aware of emergency and evacuation plans and increasing the amount of people who are prepared for a disease outbreak.
What is Healthy People 2030?
The disaster management cycle phase where all efforts have been made to prevent or decrease the effects of a disaster.
What is the disaster preparedness phase?
The disaster management cycle phase where activating the disaster plan and providing triage happens.
What is the Response Phase?
This is the pediatric version of the START triage system.
What is JumpStart?
This type of approach is to do the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people while efficiently using resources.
What is a utilitarian approach?
The phase of disaster management that occurs when the threat no longer exists and damaged structures are rebuilt and a "new normal" may be established.
What is the Recovery Phase?
Updating agency disaster plans, stockpiling food, water, medication, first-aid supplies, and performing regular disaster drills.
What are the roles of the nurse in the preparedness of the disaster phase?
Assisting with reunification of families, conducting ongoing assessments of physical and mental health status, and aiding in the evaluation of the response.
What is the role of the nurse in the Recovery Phase?
This focuses on health promotion on all levels of society and it requires an interdisciplinary effort.
What is public health?
This framework's theory describes how internal and external factors affect behavior.
What is the Ecological Model (Social Ecological Model)?