Preparedness: Disaster and Prevention Flashcards
Emergency
events that require a swift, intense response on the part of the existing community resources; handled locally
Major Disaster
unforeseen, serious, and unique events that disrupt essential community services and cause human morbidity and mortality that cannot be alleviated unless assistance is received from others outside the community
FEMA
Federal Emergency Management Agency; responds in majors disasters in the nation, report from the president - has Just in Time training
OSHA
Occupational Safety and Health Administration with the EPA, responds and acts quickly in emergency
- HAZMAT
- PPE
- Assess patients
- Decontamination
CDCP
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
EPA
Environmental Protection Act
Role of the professional nurse in disasters
Public health nurses are the first responders, just in time training, field triage, point of distribution plans, PPE, documentation, skill buildling
Shelter management of care: use ADPIE to organize care
Prevent spread of disease in recovery
Communication principles
Simplicity and Truth; consider language, culture, pets, behavioral health, avoid jargon
Disaster Management Continuum components
- Preparedness: pre-impact phase; using data to make risk assessments on vulnerability and communities at risk
- Mitigation: effort to prevent identified risks from causing a disaster, happens before and after disasters
- Response: impact phase; responding safely to an emergency (disaster management)
- Recovery: post-impact phase; recovering from a disaster including actions taken to return to normal, after an emergency
- Evaluation: starts during the recovery phase, review each step of the disaster event, ask respondents are quesitoned
Symptoms of Traumatic Stress
Shock and denial, crying, problems sleeping, loss of appetite, anorexia/overeatting, reliving events, etc
PTSD and defining symptoms
Persistence of symptoms:
- Reliving the event
- Avoiding situations that remind you of the event
- Feeling numb
- Feeling keyed up (hyper-arousal)
After-action report
retrospective analysis used to evaluate emergency response drills
Decontamination
process of cleaning to remove biological, chemical, or radiological agents
Evacuation
moving people from a dangerous place to safety
Incident Command System (ICS)
Common organizational structure implemented to improve emergency response
Invacuation
Moving people from one area to another within the same facility
National Response Framework (NFR)
Framework that guides how the nation conducts all-hazards incident response
National Incident Management System (NIMS)
Structured, flexible framework that guids the response to disasters at all levels of government, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
clothing and/or equipment used to protect the body from injury and illness
Point of distribution (POD)
Centralized location where the public picks up emergency supplies following a disaster
Real time
The actual time in which something occurs
Scenario
The sequence of possible events or circumstances
Shelter-in-place
the protective action of taking cover in a building
Simulation
The imitation of the features of an object or anticipated response
