NR 442 COMMUNITY HEALTH UPDATED
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Governmental Responsibilities - ✔✔- Local government (first responders)
responsible for safety and welfare
- State government involved when disaster overwhelms local community resources
- Federal government through Department of Homeland Security, CDC, FEMA
✔✔U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - ✔✔- Federal agency that is an
umbrella for several existing agencies that was designed to bring together all the
functions related to emergencies, immigration, border security, and antiterrorism efforts
✔✔FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency - ✔✔- Agency charged with
providing assistance to communities hit by natural disasters; Mission is to support
citizens and first responders to ensure that, as a nation, everyone works together to
build, sustain, and improve the capacity to prepare for, protect against, respond to,
recover from, and mitigate all hazards
✔✔Disaster Management Stages - ✔✔1. prevention
2. preparedness
3. response
, 4. recovery
✔✔Prevention Stage - ✔✔- Identify potential disaster risks.
- Create risk maps
- Educate citizens regarding what actions to take to prepare for disasters.
- Individual, family, and community level
- Develop a plan for meeting the potential disasters identified.
✔✔Preparedness Stage - ✔✔- Training in first aid
- Assembling a disaster emergency kit
- Establishing a predetermined meeting place
away from home
- Making a family communication plan
✔✔Response Stage - ✔✔- Response stage begins
immediately after the disaster incident occurs
• May include:
• Shelter in place
• Evacuation
• Search and rescue
• Staging area
• Disaster triage
✔✔Disaster Triage - ✔✔- START triage system- Nurses and other
emergency personnel such as physicians,
EMTs, and paramedics are responsible for
performing triage duties
• "Simple Triage And Rapid Treatment"-
Goal:
- Used in multicasualty or mass casualty
incident
- Triage of injured person should occur in
less than 1 minute based on:
• Respirations
• Perfusion
• Mental status
• Uses people with minor injuries to assist
• Person is tagged with a colored triage tag
• Victims moved to the treatment area
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Governmental Responsibilities - ✔✔- Local government (first responders)
responsible for safety and welfare
- State government involved when disaster overwhelms local community resources
- Federal government through Department of Homeland Security, CDC, FEMA
✔✔U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - ✔✔- Federal agency that is an
umbrella for several existing agencies that was designed to bring together all the
functions related to emergencies, immigration, border security, and antiterrorism efforts
✔✔FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency - ✔✔- Agency charged with
providing assistance to communities hit by natural disasters; Mission is to support
citizens and first responders to ensure that, as a nation, everyone works together to
build, sustain, and improve the capacity to prepare for, protect against, respond to,
recover from, and mitigate all hazards
✔✔Disaster Management Stages - ✔✔1. prevention
2. preparedness
3. response
, 4. recovery
✔✔Prevention Stage - ✔✔- Identify potential disaster risks.
- Create risk maps
- Educate citizens regarding what actions to take to prepare for disasters.
- Individual, family, and community level
- Develop a plan for meeting the potential disasters identified.
✔✔Preparedness Stage - ✔✔- Training in first aid
- Assembling a disaster emergency kit
- Establishing a predetermined meeting place
away from home
- Making a family communication plan
✔✔Response Stage - ✔✔- Response stage begins
immediately after the disaster incident occurs
• May include:
• Shelter in place
• Evacuation
• Search and rescue
• Staging area
• Disaster triage
✔✔Disaster Triage - ✔✔- START triage system- Nurses and other
emergency personnel such as physicians,
EMTs, and paramedics are responsible for
performing triage duties
• "Simple Triage And Rapid Treatment"-
Goal:
- Used in multicasualty or mass casualty
incident
- Triage of injured person should occur in
less than 1 minute based on:
• Respirations
• Perfusion
• Mental status
• Uses people with minor injuries to assist
• Person is tagged with a colored triage tag
• Victims moved to the treatment area
