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NUR 443: DISASTER RESPONSE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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NUR 443: DISASTER RESPONSE EXAMQUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Stages of a disaster - answer-evacuation in the non-disaster phase, shelter in place
before event at end of pre-disaster phase
Post even - answer-emergency phase and reconstruction phase
Precautionary - answer-engage policymakers, prevent/mitigate, get involved
Write protocols and procedures
Secure necessary resources
Local emergency planning committee (lepc)
State emergency response committee (serc)
Rhode island emergency management agency (riema)
Federal emergency management agency (fema)
American red cross
Primary - answer-plan, educate, practice
Secondary - answer-triage
Tertiary - answer-treat, rehabilitate, recover, new normal
Nurse's roles and responsibility - answer-1. Activate facility's disaster plan
2. Follow site emergency contingency plan procedures
3. Know chain of command
4. Clarify changes to usual staffing protocols
5. Use professional competence to provide the best care possible given the resources
and physical conditions available
6.quickly communicate difficulties through a chain of command
Pre-event and event phases - answer-impending disaster identified, warning, watch
advisories, structural preparations mobilization of community resources, staging of
supplies and equipment
Concern = desensitization
Shelter-in-place - answer-shelter management: facilities, registration, security, supplies,
communication
Quarrantine - answer-isolation, access control, decontamination
Guidance - answer-quantity over quality: the greatest number of people quickly and
easily, least sick to most sick
, Lateral before vertical: further away from harm, fire doors, safe rooms, far away from
harm
Prioritizing - answer-ambulatory --> bedridden --> dialysis --> infants
Evacuate or shelter in place - answer-short duration: high- evacuate or shelter
Low-shelter
Long duration high- evac; low- evac
Who makes decision - answer-incident commander, director of emergency
management agency
Fema classification = "displaced"
Post-event: emergency phase - answer-act in isolation, when is it safe
Search and rescue (sar)
-extrication
-triage, first aid, medical care
-reestablish security, communication,
Complete evacuation
Home health disasters - answer-contact clients to check on well-being
Telephone client
Telephone client's emergency contact
Visit client
Talk to neighbors
Contact evacuation centers
Contact healthcare facilities
Contact local law enforcement
You teach a community disaster preparedness class on how to find shelter during and
after a disaster situation. This class is an example of what level of prevention? - answer-
primary
The emergency room nurse learns from local police that a tornado has hit a residential
area and numerous casualties are being transported to the er. The first action taken by
the er nurse is:
A.prepare the triage rooms
B. Activate the facility's disaster plan
C. Obtain additional supplies from central supply
D. Call-in additional nursing staff to assist - answer-activate the facility's disaster plan
In responding to a mass casualty incident, the nurse's roles and responsibilities include
which of the following?
A. Clarifying changes to usual staffing protocols
B. Knowing the chain of command
C. Following site emergency contingency plan procedures
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