NR 443 - Week 6 DQ 2: Disaster Preparedness. A Graded - Chamberlain College Of Nursing.

NR 443 - Week 6 DQ 2: Disaster Preparedness. A Graded - Chamberlain College Of Nursing. Week 6 DQ 2 Disaster Preparedness (graded) Visit the website . Review the steps for being prepared for a disaster. As a community health nurse, what elements do you think are important to stress to the community? How is your community preparing for a potential disaster, or how has it prepared? Respond This section lists options that can be used to view responses. Collapse All Print View Show Options Responses Responses are listed below in the following order: response, author and the date and time the response is posted. Sort by Read/Unread Sort by Response Sorted Ascending, click to sort descending Sort by Author Sort by Date/Time* (an instructor response) Collapse Mark as Unread Disaster Preparedness Instructor Hamilton Email this Author 2/18/2015 8:55:50 PM Hello Class, The Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) website provides excellent information through their own Be Prepared web page for the National Preparedness Month every September and it’s a great resource to share as we are focusing on Disaster Preparedness in this discussion. Post 9/11 the state health department had the county health departments develop Homeland Security Bioterrorism task forces to educate the community on how to prepare for a natural or other disaster. Health Departments developed teams of staff and invited key stakeholders from the community level to participate. One of the criteria to memberships was to demonstrate that each staff/stakeholder had a personal plan so when called to duty there were no worries about personal issues….now ask yourself do you have a plan…is this a sound plan and what needs to be part of the plan…here is a web site for your to answer some of those questions and prepare. Please share your thoughts and what you found on the site, see you in class!~Dr Hamilton Link - Class: You may begin posting in this TD on Sunday, April 5, 2015 for credit. Respond Collapse Mark as Unread RE: Disaster Preparedness Arthel Tamakloe Email this Author 4/9/2015 9:21:39 PM Planning for natural disaster ensures that resources are available and that roles and responsibilities of all personnel and agencies are delineated. (p.568). As nurses we must be ready and be prepared for any emergencies. So monthly disaster drills can be conduct to prepare us for disasters. Monthly disaster drills will help us to know the organizational plan and to stay informed during the disaster. As nurses when we are properly trained, this helps us to ensure that in any type of disaster, we will have organized and effective medical care. As a community health nurse we can also educate the community and our patients how to prepare for natural disaster by conducting drills with them as well. Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2011). Community/Public health nursing: Promoting the health of populations (5th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders/Elsevier. Respond Edit (an instructor response) Collapse Mark as Read RE: Disaster Preparedness Instructor Hamilton Email this Author 4/10/2015 8:55:00 PM Thanks for the post Arthel. There were tornadoes last night and this took 2 lives and 70 homes. The governor is involved and many online cites are collecting money for the victims. I am hoping they are monitoring the legitimacy of the cites.~Dr Hamilton Respond