Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management (13 Questions) Flashcards

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Identify the components of the disaster management continuum and the activities involved in each phase.

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Components Acronym for Disaster management continuum =

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Penguins Mate Really Rapidly Everyday

Preparedness 
Mitigation 
Response 
Rescue 
Evaluation
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Preparedness

  • Develop ____ plan for themselves
  • _____ home plan to pts and families
  • Disaster planning at ___place
  • Participate in d____ and t____ exercises
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  • home
  • teach
  • work
  • drills, tabletop
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Personal preparedness

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  • Go-bag

- Shelter-in-place/Evacuation Plan: **contact outside of the geographic location

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Professional preparedness

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  • What is the disaster plan at your place of work?

- What are the types of disasters that could happen?

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Community preparedness

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  • State & Local Offices of Emergency Management

- The communication plan for the emergency plan?

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Public Health Preparedness =

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= Ability of the public health system, community, and individuals to prevent, protect against, quickly respond to, and recover from health emergencies, particularly those in which scale, timing or unpredictability threatens to overwhelm routine capabilities.

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Medical Preparedness =

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= ability of the health care system to prevent, protect against, quickly respond to, and recover from health emergencies, particularly those whose scale, timing, or unpredictability threatens to overwhelm routine capabilities.

During an emergency, the public health system supports the health care system by helping to minimize illness and injuries when emergencies unfold, thus reducing the burden on the health care system.

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Mitigation

1) Mitigation Preparedness =
2) Mitigation Recovery =
Therefore, mitigation activities take place ____ and ___ emergencies or disasters.

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1) = Mitigation is an effort to prevent identified risks from causing a disaster
2) Mitigation also involves efforts to LESSEN THE IMPACT OF A DISASTER by initiating measures to limit damage, disease, disability, and loss of life among the members of a community

BEFORE and AFTER

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Response

National Response Framework =

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= (federal), 15 emergency support functions

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National Response Framework

Emergency Support Function 8 Public Health and Medical Services

  • assessment of public ___ and ____ needs
  • public health s_____
  • Medical p____, e___/s____
  • C_____ of the above
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  • health, medical needs
  • surveillance
  • personnel, equipment/supplies
  • coordination
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Recovery: Nursing A_____

  • _____ spread of disease
  • Assess and Address Ps_____ trauma
  • Focus on F____/C____/P____ centered care
  • Participate in critical incident s____ debriefing
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Advocate

  • prevent
  • psychological
  • family, community, population
  • stress
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Evaluation

  • After action evaluation - who is involved? happens after what phase?
  • Each ____ of disaster event is r____
  • following a thorough review of s____ and w_____, a final report is prepared with r_____ for improving emergency response in the future
  • F_____ of ____-based disaster response
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  • responders and agencies involved, after recovery phase
  • step, reviewed
  • strengths, weaknesses, recommendations
  • foundation, evidence
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14
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Demonstrate knowledge about community preparedness to effectively instruct community members on responding to emergencies, disasters and terrorism.

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Who works with state and local governments to develop disaster, emergency, and terrorism strategies?

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FEMA

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16
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Many local communities do what to prepare themselves after a disaster strikes elsewhere?

Groups involved (2)

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Host meetings

1) Invite Red Cross - recommendations on how to better prepare themselves with shelters, disaster supply kits, and escape plans
2) Firefighters to help plan evacuation plans, give out resource phone numbers, educate on types of disasters that may occur

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17
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Distinguish between the types of services in disaster response/relief and recovery.

Distinguish between the phases of the Disaster Management Continuum

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Planning/Preparedness Phase =

Services involved in this phase

1) R____ assessment (A__-H_____ A____) =
2) Assesses community or house of worship’s systems in______ and its capability to respond to potential risks and vulnerabilities

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= State of readiness to respond to a disaster or emergency situation

1) Risk Assessment = Evaluating community’s potential disaster risks, vulnerabilities, and likelihood for a disaster to occur (All-Hazards Analysis)
2) Infrastructure

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Mitigation Phase (P_____ phase) =

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Prevention
= Measures taken to reduce the harmful effects of disaster in order to limit its impact on human health, community, function, and economic infrastructure

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20
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Response Phase =

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= the actual implementation of the disaster plan

  • Disaster response is the organization of activities used to respond to the event and its aftermath
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Response phase services

  • focuses primarily on emergency r____
  • ____ lives, providing first ____
  • minimizing and r____ damaged systems (communication and transportation)
  • meeting basic life requirements (3)
  • providing m____ health and s____ support and comfort care
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  • relief
  • saving, aid
  • restoring
  • food, water, shelter
  • mental, spiritual
22
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Recovery Phase =

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= Focused on the stabilization and return of community and health care system to its pre-impact status “getting back to normal”

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Recovery phase services

  • reb_____, rep_____ community’s in_____
  • re_____ populations
  • instituting inter____ and ____ term m____ health interventions
  • can begin days, or in some cases, months after disaster strikes
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  • rebuild, repair, infrastructure
  • relocate
  • intermediate, long, mental
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Evaluation Phase =

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= a timely and thoughtful evaluation process is essential for determining what worked vs. what did not, so future revisions and enhancements to disaster plan and response system can be made

note: communities/health care systems that fail to implement evaluation phase find they are no better prepared for next time disaster strikes

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Apply knowledge about FEMA, Red Cross, OSHA, CDC P and the EPA in preparing and/or responding to a disaster.
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency’s )

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FEMA

  • has programs to teach how to develop ____ of ____ (POD and coordinate state and local efforts)
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  • point of distribution
27
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FEMA - National Response Framework

  • Government resources alone cannot meet all needs of those affected by terrorist, disasters. So when disaster strikes people throughout c_____ and our n____ pitch in to help response effort
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  • community, nation
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National Response Framework updated in 2016

  • provides context for how the w____ co_____ works together and how response efforts related to other parts of n_____ preparedness
  • 1 of 5 documents in a suite of national planning frameworks
  • Each framework covers one preparedness mission are (5)
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  • whole community, national

- prevention, protection, mitigation, response, recovery

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FEMA’s Public Assistance (PA) Grant Program =

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= to provide assistance to state, tribal and local governments, and certain types of private nonprofit organizations so that communities can quickly respond to and recover from major disasters or emergencies declared by President

(executive order of president needed to activate FEMA PA as national emergency or major disaster)

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Red Cross

  • Provides i____ and f____ assistance to meet emergency needs such as f___ and sh____
  • Handling in____ from concerned family members outside the area
  • Coordinates dis_____ of emergency relief s____
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  • individual, family, food, shelter
  • inquiries
  • distribution of services
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OSHA =

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= emergency preparedness within the workplace

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Under the OSH Act, employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthful ______.

  • by setting and enforcing s______
  • providing t____, outreach, e____, and assistance
  • Employers must comply with all applicable OSHA standards
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workplace

  • standards
  • teaching, education
33
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General Duty Clause of the OSH Act =

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= employers must comply with this act with requires them to keep their workplace free of serious recognized hazards

34
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CDC P categorization of hazardous chemicals

CDC has a key role in protecting the public’s health in an emergency involving =

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= involving release of chemical that could harm people’s health

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A chemical emergency =

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= occurs when a hazardous chemical has been released and the release has the potential for harming people’s health

  • can be unintentional, as in case of industrial accident
  • intentional, as in case of terrorist attack
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EPA what do they do? Responds to =

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= to oil spills, chemical, biological, radiological releases, and large-scale national emergencies

  • also provides additional response assistance when state/local first responder capabilities have been exhausted or when additional support is needed
37
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Analyze the roles and responsibilities of a professional nurse in community preparedness; responding to an emergency or disaster situation.

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Responsibilities of Professional Nurse in community

1) To _____ against, quickly _____ to, and ____ from health emergencies
2) ______ indications for a potential disaster
3) _____ safe and appropriate acute care and community based care
4) _____ the public health system rapidly and effectively
5) Public e______ and anticipate shelter management of care

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1) protect, respond, recover
2) Recognize
3) Provide
4) Alert
5) Educate

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Responsibilities of Professional Nurse

Teaching =
Emergency Shelter Nursing =
Recovery =

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= Medication teaching, supply of medicine, emergency preparedness measures, shelter in place, evacuation
= health maintenance (victims/triage), shelter staff/ Sanitation
= Conduct ongoing assessments (health maintenance, monitor individual and family coping with situation)

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Roles of Professional Nurse

Professional Nurses are?*

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FIRST RESPONDERS

  • just in time training
  • field triage
  • point of distribution plans
  • PPE
  • skill building for disaster response
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Roles of Professional Nurse - Responding to an emergency situation

Nurses help with

  • allocation of _____
  • obtaining s___/e____
  • S_____ staff
  • R____/R____
  • First ___
  • T____
  • P_____ of disease
  • Providing ____ support
  • Co____, Coo____, and An_____
  • Application of the?
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  • space
  • supplies/equipment
  • scheduling
  • reports/records
  • aid
  • triage
  • prevention
  • emotional
  • communication, coordination, anticipation
  • nursing process (ADPIE)
42
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Triage skills include (2)

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  • Color Coding and START
43
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Apply communication principles during an emergency, disaster or terrorism occurrence.

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44
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The principles of communication include (12)

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1) Privacy
2) Using a therapeutic and calm tone
3) Using the language sensitivity tool
4) Consider a translator
5) Active listening + silence if needed
6) Be honest, avoid making false assurances
7) Quiet area
8) those providing info should have universal manual to follow
9) according to situation
10) avoid jargon terminology
11) include all members of family
12) say what is known and what is not known

45
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Incorporate knowledge of critical incident stress debriefing and post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in caring for responders and/victims of a disaster.

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CRICITAL INCIDENT STRESS DEBRIEFING

  • Responders are exposed to ____ situations
    Therefore they experience =
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  • traumatic
    = exhaustion and may not be aware of impact of experience on them nor be able to verbalize these feelings after an incident
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CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS DEBRIEFING =

  • does not constitute any form of ____therapy, and should never be utilized as a substitute for psychotherapy
  • developed exclusively for?
  • aims at reduction of d_____ and res____ of group cohesion and unit performance
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= 7 phase, small group, supportive crisis intervention process

  • psychotherapy
  • small, homogenous groups
  • distress, restoration of cohesion
48
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A psycho-educational small group process =

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= structured group story-telling process combined with practical information to normalize group member reactions to a critical incident to facilitate their recovery

49
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Objectives of psycho-educational (3)

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1) mitigation of impact of traumatic incident
2) facilitation of normal recovery processes, restoration of adaptive functions in psychologically healthy people who are distressed by an unusually disturbing event
3) A CISD functions as a screening opportunity to identify group members who might benefit from additional support services or referral for professional care