Sarah Waters Community Health Christina Woods Week 3------EBOLA Assignment (Class and Clinical assignment) 40 PT ASSIGNMENT.
1. What was the biggest healthcare challenge during the Ebola outbreak? Your answer should be at least 2 paragraph (each paragraph should be 5 sentences). WORTH 2 POINTS.
The main obstacle during the Ebola epidemic is the restricted availability of contemporary medical treatment. In African nations, access to basic healthcare was problematic before the Ebola pandemic. For patients who are suspected of being infected, getting access to therapy and supportive care is crucial and can make a big difference in their chances of survival. Ebola would spread even when medical personnel tried to treat and contain it at a hospital or other facility. As a result, many healthcare workers passed away. Due to a shortage of transportation when the virus first started to spread, many who were affected were unable to get the care they need. Insufficient ambulance service was available to assist in getting these individuals to the appropriate healthcare facilities to receive the treatment for the virus. This caused an increased number of deaths within a home and village and did not help the spread of the virus. The virus was not taken seriously by the people in the African countries. they were not correctly educated about the care and the burial of the dead from this virus. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7111626/#:~:text=Limited%20Access%20to%20 Modern%20Health%20Care&text=Even%20before%20the%20Ebola%20outbreak%2C%20access %20to%20basic%20primary%20health,of%20being%20infected%20with%20Ebola.
2. What is surge capacity? WORTH 1 POINT
Surge capacity is the capacity to handle a disaster and is the increased capacity available during a mass casualty situation.
3. Did Ebola have an impact on surge capacity? If so, explain your answer in detail. WORTH 1 POINT
Yes, Ebola existed in a nation that was unable to both adequately contain the disease and care for its own citizens. In an effort to limit the spread, some of the cases were not promptly tracked down and documented throughout time. After the United States was able to deploy soldiers to assist, other nations also sent troops to aid the African populace. Africa lacked the capacity to contain the Ebola outbreak, either in terms of size or strength. 4. Are nurses critical in preventing surge capacity? Explain why or why not. WORTH 1 POINT
Frontline workers include nurses. Workers in nursing are regarded as the foundation of every healthcare organization. As they respond to diseases and outbreaks, nurses have extra challenges and risks. The illness itself, exhaustion, lengthy workdays, and burnout are all risks faced by the nurses. In the process of treating several patients during the Ebola outbreak, nurses were exposed to the virus without the protective gear that would have kept them safe. It is crucial that nurses and other medical personnel adhere to protocols for using the appropriate PPE and isolation measures to prevent the transmission of viruses.
5. Brainstorm strategies and solutions to improve surge capacity during a natural disaster? WORTH 1 POINT
The best course of action to ensure everyone's safety would be to analyze the situation before dispatching frontline personnel.
6. What are 3 barriers to getting healthcare workers to respond to a disaster? WORTH 3 POINTS
A study found a number of obstacles to efficient catastrophe risk reduction. A few of them were the absence of evidence, the scarcity of specialists in disaster nursing, and the improper use of research findings in the creation of clinical evidence-based guidelines. According to the poll, out of 5,790 employees, 41% replied, 79% strongly agreed they knew what to do in the case of a crisis, and the majority said they would be willing to report for duty. https://intjem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1865-1380-5-29
7. How can we improve each barrier? WORTH 3 POINTS
Ensuring that healthcare staff and other personnel employees have the necessary trainings and information to respond to catastrophes is one method to improve these hurdles.
8. What are your thoughts on Allocation of Resources? Who should or should not receive available resources? Support your documentation with 2 cited sources. WORTH 5 POINTS
This is the procedure for determining all the resources that are available for a project and then allocating them wisely to jobs that allow them to perform at their highest level. In order to ensure that the teams are doing their tasks and giving the greatest care possible, I believe that this would be a terrific thing to do during catastrophes. This can make it possible to utilize resources like money, labor, and assets to the fullest. Maximum efficiency, encouraging teamwork, raising the agency's profit margins, and improving customer happiness are a few other advantages. The need for resources and supplies related to public health as well as healthcare is growing. These are valuable and necessary for the capacity to maintain health, and decisions must be made to guarantee that funds allocated for healthcare and if it is being used to the best of its ability. 9. Discuss the 4 stages of Disaster Management. WORTH 4 POINTS
Mitigation, readiness, reaction, and recovery are the four phases. Any action that lessens the harmful impacts of emergencies that cannot be avoided falls under the category of mitigation, which is preventing future emergencies. Purchasing fire and flood insurance for your house may fall under this category. Being prepared for an emergency involves making plans or arrangements to preserve lives as well as support response and rescue efforts. Plans for evacuation and preparing supplies of food and water might be part of this. The term "reaction" refers to a safe response to an emergency, which involves taking steps to preserve life and limit additional property damage. This can entail hiding from a tornado or closing a gas valve in the event of an earthquake. Last but not least, recuperation is getting over an emergency.
10. How are nurses involved in each of the 4 stages? WORTH 1 POINT
- Nurses participate in each of these phases. By working with patients to minimize harms and teach them self-care techniques, nurses can help patients avoid further injury following a diagnosis. They participate by instructing as well. In order to be prepared, nurses keep themselves updated on the facility's evacuation plans and attend the most recent trainings to maintain their practices. In reaction, nurses respond and take action to ensure the safety of patients and other visitors to their facility. When there is a fire or a gas leak, they can assist in getting patients and their families out of the institution. In addition to providing medical care to patients injured in tornadoes, nurses also assist in the recovery process by coming to the aid of other community members harmed by floods.
11. How do the 4 stages of disaster management relate to the movie Hero with a Thousand Faces? WORTH 1 POINT
According to information found online, the film illustrates how every myth has a hero and how the hero's journey frequently follows a formula. Recognizing the patterns facilitates reading the concealed information. I'm not sure how they would be related, unless it's just illustrating the standard procedures followed in order to be ready, how to get ready for a disaster, or how to be ready to react to events occurring in our immediate surroundings. It may also have to do with those who react, who are hailed as heroes for prioritizing the needs of others over their own.
12. Identify the 7 community lifelines, addressed by FEMA, during a disaster. WORTH 1 POINT The 7 community lifelines are safety and security, food, hydration, shelter, health and medical, energy, communications, transportation, hazardous materials, and water systems. 13. How does each one relate to your community? WORTH 7 POINTS
- The lifelines' ideas are utilized across the full preparation cycle and were designed to help response planning and operations. Law enforcement, security, fire service, search and rescue, government service, and community safety are the components that make up safety and security. Food, water, shelter, and agriculture make up food, hydration, and shelter. Medical treatment, public health, patient mobility, the medical supply chain, and fatality management are all included in the terms health and medical. Fuel and a power grid make up energy. Responder communications, alert warning and messaging, financing, and 911 dispatch are all included in communications. Highways, roadways, automobiles, public transit, railroads, aircraft, and seafaring are all included in transportation. Facilities, toxins, pollutants, and HAZMAT make up hazardous materials. Wastewater management and potable water infrastructure make up water systems.
14. Which of the lifelines were a concern during the Ebola outbreak? WORTH 1 POINT
The lifelines that were a concern during Ebola were all of them. Security and safety, this is affected if law enforcement was exposed and died from the virus causing a shortage in the field. Food and hydration were compromised due to the spread being caused by the bats that were eaten. This could also occur when the spread of the virus is due to contaminated food or water. Health and medical is compromised due to the virus infecting medical staff and causing a shortage in nursing staff due to their deaths. Communications was bad due to the villages being far apart and not having advanced technology. Transportation is not a high demand there and during the Ebola outbreak, there was a severe need for ambulance transportation and other transportation for the individuals that were infected. Hazardous materials, the facilities and water systems were all contaminated or potentially infected by other individuals unaware they had the virus.
15. How was each lifeline impacted? WORHT 2 POINTS
• Safety and security- Threats to life safety are no longer a concern for all response personnel and impacted communities. • Food, Water, Shelter- All survivors, their pets, and service animals have access to food, water, and sanitation. • Health and Medical- All survivors, their pets, and service animals have access to required medical and veterinary care. Emergency medical systems can manage patient movement requirements. • Energy- Generators are providing temporary emergency power at critical facilities necessary to stabilize other lifelines. Fuel distribution is available for responders. • Communications- Survivors have access to commercial communications infrastructure to contact or be contacted by emergency services. • Transportation- Multimodal routes (air, rail, road, port) are clear of debris and accessible by normal or alternate means. • Hazardous Material- All contaminated areas are identified and secure.
