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NUR 254 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS | WITH 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS
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NUR 254 Emergency Preparedness1. What are emergencies?
Answer
Sudden, unforeseen events that threaten health or safety
2. What are disasters?
Answer
Emergencies that initially overwhelm available personnel and emergency services (large scale
destruction or disruption)
3. What is a pandemic?
Answer
An infection that spreads rapidly around the world
4. What is emergency preparedness?
Answer
Plans to prevent, respond to, and recover from emergencies
5. What is surge capacity?
Answer
Ability to rapidly meet increased demand for qualified personnel & resources
6. What are the three characteristics that define a disaster?
Answer
1) An event of destructive magnitude
2) Kills, injures, or causes human suffering to a significant number of people or the
environment
3) Requires the need for external assistance
7. What is a mass casualty event? (MCI)
, Answer
Any large scale event in which the health care needs exceeds the health care resources (requires
triage for prioritization of medical care)
8. (T/F) All disasters are mass casualty events.
Answer
False (All mass casualty events are disasters, but not all disasters are MCIs)
9. What are the four phases of emergency response?
Answer
- Mitigation
- Preparedness
- Emergency response
- Recovery
10. What is the mitigation phase?
Answer
Warning systems, insurance claims (Happens before and after emergency)
11. What is the preparedness phase?
Answer
- Nurses gain understanding of expected roles in emergency
- Develop emergency plan (designate meeting places)
- This all happens before the emergency
12. What are some examples of plans?
Answer
- Identifying/ organizing and training emergency personnel
- Stocking supplies
- Implementing warning systems
- Implementing response and evacuation plans
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