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NUR 213 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS | GRADED A+ SOLVED 100% CORRECT
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NUR 213 Emergency Preparedness1. Disaster
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an event in which illness or injuries exceed resource capabilities of a health care facility or
community due to destruction and devastation.
2. internal disaster
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any event inside a health care facility or campus that could endanger patients or staff.
Creates a need for evacuation or relocation.
3. internal disaster requires?
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extra personnel and the activation of the facility's emergency preparedness and response plan
(Emergency Management Plan)
4. Examples of Internal disaster
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fire, explosion, and violence
5. Most important outcome for any internal disaster?
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maintain patient, staff, and visitor safety
6. External disaster
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event outside the health care facility or campus, somewhere in community, which requires the
activation of the facility's emergency management plan.
The number of facility staff is not adequate for the incoming emergency department.
7. Examples of External disaster
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natural
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hurricane; technologic
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biologic terror attack
8. Major difference between "multi-casualty" and "mass casualty" events.
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number and severity of victims or casualties involved.
9. Multi-casualty event
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can be managed by a hospital using local resources
10. mass casualty event
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overwhelms local medical capabilities and may require the collaboration of multiple agencies
and health care facilities to handle the crisis. State, regional, and/or national resources needed
11. During a fire, what is a nurses priority?
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remove any pt or staff from immediate danger of the fire of smoke. (Pt safety)
12. During a fire, there is a pt on life support. What is the nurse's responsibil- ity?
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maintain their respiratory status manually until removed from the fire area.
13. True or False? During a fire, a nurse can direct ambulatory patients to help push wheelchair
patients out of danger.
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True
14. True or False? If needed during a fire, have one or two staff members move patients on
blankets or carry them.
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True. But do not risk injury to you or staff members while moving pts or attempting to
extinguish the fire.
15. To maintain ongoing disaster preparedness for hospitals
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Joint Commission requires hospital personnel participate in emergency/disaster annually.
16. What event changed hospital and community disaster planning efforts?
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9/11
17. What became the focus of public health risk?
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Weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
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