Emergency Prepareness Flashcards

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The Risks

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Natural RIsks: A disaster which are caused by nature or the environment. Often unpredictable (slow or fast)

  • Forest fire
  • blizzards
  • ice storms

**Man Made: **a disaster caused by technological, insdustrial, and social conflict

  • airplane crash
  • fire in meat packing plant
  • chlorine leak
  • 9/11
  • flu pandemic

Social conflicts

  • riods
  • shootings
  • war
  • terrorism

Technological and industrial risks

  • transportation accidents
  • power outage
  • structural collapse
  • hazardous spills
  • fires
  • explosions
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Steps 1 2 3

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Step 1: S.T.O.P.

Stop and

Think

Organize your thoughts before you

Proceed

_Step 2: R.A.C.E. _
In the event of fire (for example):

Rescue - An individual

**Alarm **- Call for help and pull Fire alarm,

Confinement - Confine the problem (closing the door,)

Extinguish & evacuate - To evacuate the space; leave the area of danger

Step 3: Evacuation

Partial (site)

  • Follow the basic principle of RACE
  • Remove the patient away from the risk area, confine the risk area, place patient in a safe area
  • Take them out and away from room (risk area) to the hallway/ nurse station

Horizontal

  • Move your patient from one smoke compartment to another
  • East to West; West to East divided by fire/smoke retardent doors
  • On the same plane but pass fire/smoke retardant doors

Vertical

  • Evacuate two floors below the risk area/event

Tot​al

  • Building at risk
  • Bringing all the patient to the ground floor and situate patient in a designated safe area (next building across)
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Roles and Responsibilities in evacuation

  1. Zone monitor
  2. Evacuation monitors
  3. Searchers
  4. Traffic Monitors
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Zone monitor (nurse in charge, nurse coordinator, senior nurse)

  • Taking directives from fire marshals
  • Responsible to notify the directives to the roles
  • Must be alert, know what’s going on, know the directives well

Evacuation Monitors

  • Moves the patients away from the danger area into the safe area

Searchers (needs to know the floor)

  • Goes from room to room to check and see if there is anyone who is left behind
  • Mark the doors that are cleared and empty

Traffic Monitors

  • guide people to the designated area, lead them
  • Ensure that there are no obstacles away that will disrupt the flow of the evacuation
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Priorities in evacuating patients

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Green – ambulatory (Move first)

  • Able to independently
  • Able to remove and clear the area thus provide more space for the following patient

Yellow – semi-ambulatory (Move second)

  • Hindrance to navigate

Red – immobile (Move last)

  • Dependent
  • Bed Ridden
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