Emergency Preparedness Flashcards
What is a disaster?
results of vast breakdown in the relationship between humans and their environment, a serious or sudden event on such a scale that the community needs fat out number resources
Hurricanes
- deaths are from drowning and injuries from flying debris due to winds
- nurses can be instrumental in providing direct emergency care
Tornados
- primary hazard risk for injuries from flying debris
- desolation of community resources
Earthquakes
- people caught underneath rubble
- injured by failing debris
Tsunami
Injury and death due to drowning and trauma from massive forceful waves
-cities demolished
Flooding
- may happen quickly or develop over time
- primary hazard is drowning
- long term hazard is the development of dz from contaminated water and lack of hygiene
Terrorism
- department of defense estimates that as many as 26 nations possess chemical or biological agents
- 10 countries are believes to possess biological agents as weapons
- the attack can take many forms
- aerosolized agents
Anthrax
- flu like symptoms
- fatal if not treated quickly
- found in the environment
Botulism
- from the toxins produced by clostridium botulinum
- inhalation or ingestion from food or water
- spore forming
Plague
transmitted person to person
Small Pox
- presents as a rash
- transmitted by contact with lesions or inhaling
Tularemia
- skin infections
- pulmonary infections
- transmitted by blood and body fluids
Nuclear and Radiological attacks
-injury comes from the explosion and the radioactive contamination
FEMA
Federal Emergency Management Agency
-primary purpose is to coordinate the response to a disaster that has occurred in the US and that overwhelms the resources of local and state authorities
Phases of Disaster
- Mitigation
- Preparedness
- Response
- Recovery
