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Preparedness: Disaster and Prevention Flashcards

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Emergency

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events that require a swift, intense response on the part of the existing community resources; handled locally

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Major Disaster

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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

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FEMA

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Federal Emergency Management Agency; responds in majors disasters in the nation, report from the president - has Just in Time training

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OSHA

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration with the EPA, responds and acts quickly in emergency

  • HAZMAT
  • PPE
  • Assess patients
  • Decontamination
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CDCP

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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EPA

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Environmental Protection Act

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Role of the professional nurse in disasters

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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

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Communication principles

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Simplicity and Truth; consider language, culture, pets, behavioral health, avoid jargon

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Disaster Management Continuum components

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  • 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
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Symptoms of Traumatic Stress

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Shock and denial, crying, problems sleeping, loss of appetite, anorexia/overeatting, reliving events, etc

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PTSD and defining symptoms

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Persistence of symptoms:

  • Reliving the event
  • Avoiding situations that remind you of the event
  • Feeling numb
  • Feeling keyed up (hyper-arousal)
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After-action report

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retrospective analysis used to evaluate emergency response drills

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Decontamination

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process of cleaning to remove biological, chemical, or radiological agents

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Evacuation

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moving people from a dangerous place to safety

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Incident Command System (ICS)

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Common organizational structure implemented to improve emergency response

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Invacuation

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Moving people from one area to another within the same facility

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National Response Framework (NFR)

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Framework that guides how the nation conducts all-hazards incident response

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National Incident Management System (NIMS)

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Structured, flexible framework that guids the response to disasters at all levels of government, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations

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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

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clothing and/or equipment used to protect the body from injury and illness

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Point of distribution (POD)

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Centralized location where the public picks up emergency supplies following a disaster

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Real time

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The actual time in which something occurs

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Scenario

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The sequence of possible events or circumstances

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Shelter-in-place

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the protective action of taking cover in a building

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Simulation

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The imitation of the features of an object or anticipated response

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Surveillance

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A process to document and track changing information to prevent injury and illness

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Terrorism

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The use of threats and/r violence to intimidate or coerce society for political purposes

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Disasters can cause…

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Disruption of: communication, transportation, utilities
Loss of: shelter, food, medicine, medical care
Leading to: increased mortality, nutritional deficiency, environmental exposure, infectious diseases (standing water), psychological stressors

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Types of disasters

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  • Natural: i.e. wildfires, landslides, severe winter weather, volcanic eruptions
  • Accidental: i.e. nuclear plants
  • Terrorist attacks: i.e. Bombings, biological agents, chemical disasters
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Shelter-in-place

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short duration incidents, when moving would result in a greater hazard, or it is impractical to evacuate; i.e. Boston Marathon

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START

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simple triage and rapid treatment

Red- (Critical) Unstable, requiring immediate intervention
Yellow- (Urgent) Stable, but may deteriorate
Green- (Delayed) Injured or ill but stable and not likely to deteriorate (walking wounded)
Black- (Expectant) Dead or not salvageable given available resources

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Point of distribution (POD)

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where emergency supplies, food, water, medications after a disaster; FEMA teaches how to develop a POD and local departments are responsible

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