WEEK 12 EMERGENCY RESPONSE Flashcards
Define Emergency
- An unforseen combination of circumstances of the resulting state that calls for immediate action
- An urgent need for assistance relief
Define Public Health Emergency
- An urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature that seriously endangers the lives, health, and/or safety of the population
Define Disaster
- An occurance disrupting the normal conditions of existence and causing a level of suffering that exceeds the capacity of the affected community
- Overwhelming, exceeds resources to manage or cope
- Beyond our capacity to manage
What causes disasters?
- Nature
- Climate
- Human
- Biological hazards
- Infectious disease
Disasters can be….
- Acute: something happens but then it’s over and we deal with the aftermath
- Chronic: overwhelming, delepting resrouces. ex. draught, famine, opioid crisis
- As well, disasters are global and you cannot escape disasters
- Global disasters require a global response
What is the disaster/emergency management cycle? (4)
- Mitigation
- Prepardness
- Response
- Recovery
What is Mitigation?
- Interventions to prevent future emergencies and mitigate the effects
- Harm reduction of disasters of people who live near a volcano
- Ex. Public education, hazards assessments, infrastructure, improvements
What is Prepardness?
- To take action ahead of time, to prepare for an emergency
- Ex. make a plan, code black, code blue, emergency response plans, training and exercises, community outreach
What is Response?
- To protect people and property disasters or emergency
- Ex. Life saving, incident stabilization, property preservation, evacuation & mass care
What is Recovery?
- To rebuild after a disaster
- Helps build capacity in communities
- Ex. Economic recovery, debris management, housing, health/social services
What is the role of CHN in Midigation?
- Community and risk assessments
- Policy and procedues
- Community engagement
- Health promotion; vaccination
- Think about vulnerable populations
What is the role of CHN in Prepardness?
- Nursing leadership in emergency planning
- Resource procurement and allocation
- Mock drills
- Community participation
What is the role of CHN in Response?
- Implementation of the emergency plan
- Provice real-time adjustment
- Ensure needed and necessary public health nursing care for acute and chronic needs
What is the role of CHN in Recovery?
- Participate in reconstitution of critical services and the sustainment of the health and social infrastructure
- Assist the community to find its “new normal”
What do nursing roles include for emergency response?
- Education
- Community engagement; vulnerable population
- Health promotion
- First aid
- Advanced clinical care
- Triage
- Allocation of resources PPE
- Monitoring
- Organizational logistics
- Developing policy and procedures
- Research and analysis; determins what lessons we should learn
- Crisis leadership and communication
- Outreach to underserved populations
What is moral distress and what does it involve?
- The experience of a moral event
- The experience of psychological distress
- A direct causal relationship between 1 and 2
Moral distress is where you know what you should do, but you do not have the resources to carry out the plan
What is Moral resilience?
- The capacity of an individual to sustain or restore their integrity in response to moral complexity, confusion, distress or setbacks
What does moral resilience look like at the individual level?
- Reflection
- Self-care
- Communicating
What does moral resilience look like at the organizational level?
- Debriefing
- Looking at data
- Changing policies
What does moral resilience look like at the societal level?
- Having resources
- Policies
- Procedures
