Chapter 23

Question 1

Alternate care centers

Answer 1

May be used to shelter patients with medical needs designated as nonambulatory patients with less intense medical needs

Question 2

American Red Cross

Answer 2

Reports that it responds to a disaster in the United States every 8 minutes, resulting in response to more than 70,000 incidents each year

Question 3

Bioterrorism

Answer 3

Disaster resulting in little or no advance notice. Could have more casualties because those affected have little time to make evacuation preparations or to obtain adequate treatment

Question 4

CBRNE threats (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive)

Answer 4

Prevention activities for terrorism includes neutralizing these threats

Question 5

Community Emergency Response Team

Answer 5

Provide opportunities for nurses to support emergency preparedness and response in their local jurisdictions

Question 6

Community resilience

Answer 6

● A critical component of public health and medical preparedness

Question 7

Crisis standards of care

Answer 7

Enable the health care operations necessary to allocate scarce resources in a different manner to save as many lives as possible

Question 8

Disaster Medical Assistance Team

Answer 8

Specialized team

Question 9

Emergency Operations Center

Answer 9

Provides central functions at a strategic level to oversee the emergency situation

Question 10

Emergency Support Function 8: Public Health and Medical

Answer 10

Provides coordinated federal assistance to supplement state, local, and tribal resources in response to public health and medical care needs

Question 11

Functional Needs Support Services

Answer 11

Implemented to aid individuals in maintaining their independence with the general population shelter

Question 12

General population shelter

Answer 12

Often the responsibility of the local Red Cross chapter

Question 13

Homeland Security Act of 2002

Answer 13

The U.S. department of Homeland Security was created through this. It consolidated more than 20 separate agencies

Question 14

Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program

Answer 14

Developed to help states and local jurisdictions improve overall preparedness with all natural and human-made disasters

Question 15

Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 21: Public Health and Medical Preparedness

Answer 15

Established a national strategy that enables a level of public health and medical preparedness sufficient to address a range of possible disasters

Question 16

Human-made incident

Answer 16

A disaster that causes disruption, destruction, and/or devastation requiring external assistance

Question 17

Interprofessional

Answer 17

Nurses work closely with the interprofessional health team, community leaders, and organizations, engaging with and advocating for clients as needed across the disaster management cycle

Question 18

Medical Reserve Corps

Answer 18

Provide opportunities for nurses to support emergency preparedness and response in their local jurisdictions

Question 19

Mutual aid agreement

Answer 19

Allows the sharing of needed personnel, equipment, services, and supplies

Question 20

National Disaster Medical System

Answer 20

Provides nurses the opportunity to work on specialized teams

Question 21

National Incident Management System

Answer 21

A unified, all-discipline, and all-hazards approach to domestic incident management

Question 22

National Health Security Strategy

Answer 22

It is updated every 4 years and focuses on the national goals for protecting people’s health in the case of disaster in any setting

Question 23

National Preparedness Guidelines

Answer 23

Provides context for how the whole community works together and how response efforts relate to other parts of natural preparedness

Question 24

One Health

Answer 24

Recognizes that the health of humans is connected to the health of animals and the environment

Question 25

Pandemic

Answer 25

Public health disasters that create needs across a widespread region

Question 26

Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act

Answer 26

Funds public health and hospital preparedness programs, medical countermeasures under the BioShield Project, and enhances the authority of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Question 27

Points of dispensing

Answer 27

● Provides prophylaxis to the entire population within 48 hours

Question 28

Presidential Policy Directive 8: National Preparedness

Answer 28

Was signed and released by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2011. This replaced Homeland Security Presidential Directive 8 from the Bush era, and guides how the nation, from the federal level to private citizens, can “prevent, protect against, mitigate the effects of, respond to, and recover from those threats that pose the greatest risk to the security of the Nation”

Question 29

Psychological first aid

Answer 29

Part of a public health nurse’s skill set that serves their community well in a disaster

Question 30

Public health surge

Answer 30

Pressing and competing health needs occur within a close time frame

Question 31

Public health triage

Answer 31

Part of a public health nurse’s skill set that serves their community well in a disaster

Question 32

Rapid needs assessment

Answer 32

Part of a public health nurse’s skill set that serves their community well in a disaster

Question 33

Risk communication

Answer 33

Providing critical information to the public

Question 34

Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act

Answer 34

Through this act, governors may request federal assistance under a presidential disaster or emergency declaration

Question 35

Strategic National Stockpile

Answer 35

The nurse should be familiar with how the Strategic National Stockpile will be distributed

Question 36

Triage

Answer 36

Life-threatening problems take priority. The process of separating casualties and allocating treatment on the basis of the individuals’ potentials for survival

Question 37

Utilitarian framework

Answer 37

To do the greatest good for the greatest number of individuals

Question 38

National Response Framework

Answer 38

provides context for how the whole community works together and how response efforts relate to other parts of national preparedness. Each of the five frameworks covers one mission area: Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, or Recovery. In that framework there are also 15 emergency support functions.

Question 39

Personal Protective Equipment 510

Answer 39

operate specialized equipment needed to perform specific activities, and safely perform duties in disaster environments.