NUR 241 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

definition of disasterillness or event which has the potential to overwhelm the available resources of a health care facility or community internal disasterbomb blast, active shooter, institutional power outage, fire on premises external disasterhurricane, tornado, flood, mass traffic accident priority when a disaster strikessafety of patients and staff multi-casualty eventcan be managed by a hospital using local resources (multi pt mva, etc) mass casualty eventlocal medical capabilities are overwhelmed and may require the collaboration of multiple agencies and health care facilities to handle the crisis licensed facilities must prepare and plan for disasters-must have trained staff -must practice disaster responses and have practice drills (fire drill, active shooter drills)