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Nursing in a Disaster

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show flooding  
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What is a multiple casualty incident?   show
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show A situation with a large number of casualties, usually 100 or more, that significantly overwhelms available emergency medical services, facilities, and resources.  
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show fire  
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What is a secondary agent?   show
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Name 4 factors that affect the scope and severity of a disaster.   show
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What dimensions of a disaster influence the nature and possibility of preparation planning and response to the actual event?   show
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Why does greater frequency of a natrual disaster within a geographic region (such as hurricaines along the Gulf Coast) not always correlte with better preparedness?   show
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show Houses, buildings, and bridges are built to a higher standard of wind resistance.  
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show Scope is the area impacted by disaster whereas the intensity is the disasters ability to inflict damage/injury.  
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What is a critical component of pre-disaster phase preparation?   show
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What factor, initiatied in the pre-impact phase, is most crucial to preventing loss of life and minimizing damage?   show
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show Assist in preparing shelters, assist with emergency aid stations, and establish contact with other emergency service groups.  
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show When all threat of further destruction has passed and the emergency plan is effect.  
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What are the nurses responsiblities during the impact phase?   show
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show Emergency and recovery.  
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show When there is no longer any immediate threath of injury or destruction.  
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show It begins during the emergency phase and ends with the return of normal community order and functioning.  
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show Heroic, honeymoon, disillusionment, and reconstruction.  
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show The reconstruction phase: a reaffirmation of belief in teh community when new buildings are constructed.  
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A comprehensive emergency management plan adresses what four areas?   show
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What agency was established in 1979 to coordinate all available federal disaster assistance?   show
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show All moderate (level II) and massive (level I).  
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show smallpox  
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show The American Red Cross (ARC)  
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What two strategies have been developed to coordinate and reduce duplication of services during a disaster?   show
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show Damage assessment, mass care, health services, family services, and disaster welfare inquiry service.  
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List the five category color-coding for triage from most urgenty to least urgent.   show
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What are the four stages of emotional response that victims of disaster progress through?   show
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What three criteria define PTSD?   show
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show No, they expected perform casualty damage assessments only. This information is cruicial in determining the emergency needs and plan for appropriate equipment and personnel needs.  
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show The Good Samaritan Act of the state.  
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