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    Role of A Nurse in Disaster

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    Nurses play a key role in disaster management by facilitating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts. During preparedness, nurses lead efforts to update vulnerable population records and ensure community understanding of resources. In response, nurses are involved in community assessment, triage, and ongoing surveillance. For recovery, nurses provide health education, psychological support, referrals, and environmental health monitoring. Nurses staff emergency aid stations and shelters, arranging for supplies, care, and transferring patients to facilities as needed. They also address victims' psychological needs by anticipating stages of response and providing crisis intervention. Overall, nurses act as communicators, team coordinators, rescuers, healthcare providers, educators, counselors, assessors, and

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    Nurses play a key role in disaster management by facilitating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts. During preparedness, nurses lead efforts to update vulnerable population records and ensure community understanding of resources. In response, nurses are involved in community assessment, triage, and ongoing surveillance. For recovery, nurses provide health education, psychological support, referrals, and environmental health monitoring. Nurses staff emergency aid stations and shelters, arranging for supplies, care, and transferring patients to facilities as needed. They also address victims' psychological needs by anticipating stages of response and providing crisis intervention. Overall, nurses act as communicators, team coordinators, rescuers, healthcare providers, educators, counselors, assessors, and

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    Nurses play a key role in disaster management by facilitating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts. During preparedness, nurses lead efforts to update vulnerable population records and ensure community understanding of resources. In response, nurses are involved in community assessment, triage, and ongoing surveillance. For recovery, nurses provide health education, psychological support, referrals, and environmental health monitoring. Nurses staff emergency aid stations and shelters, arranging for supplies, care, and transferring patients to facilities as needed. They also address victims' psychological needs by anticipating stages of response and providing crisis intervention. Overall, nurses act as communicators, team coordinators, rescuers, healthcare providers, educators, counselors, assessors, and

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    Nurses play a key role in disaster management by facilitating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts. During preparedness, nurses lead efforts to update vulnerable population records and ensure community understanding of resources. In response, nurses are involved in community assessment, triage, and ongoing surveillance. For recovery, nurses provide health education, psychological support, referrals, and environmental health monitoring. Nurses staff emergency aid stations and shelters, arranging for supplies, care, and transferring patients to facilities as needed. They also address victims' psychological needs by anticipating stages of response and providing crisis intervention. Overall, nurses act as communicators, team coordinators, rescuers, healthcare providers, educators, counselors, assessors, and

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    ROLE OF NURSE IN

    DISASTER
    MANAGEMENT
    ROLE OF NURSE IN
    DISASTER MANAGEMENT
    DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
     To facilitate preparation with community
     To provide updated record of vulnerable populations within
    community
     Nurse leads a preparedness effort
     Nurse play multi-roles in community
     Nurse should have understanding of community resources
     Disaster Nurse must be involved in community organization
    DISASTER RESPONSE
     Nurse must involve in community assessment
     Once rescue workers begin to arrive at the scene,
    immediate plans for triage should begin
     Nurse work a member of assessment team
     To be involved in ongoing surveillance
    DISASTER RECOVERY
     Successful Recovery Preparation
     Be vigilant in Health teaching
     Psychological support
     Referrals to hospital as needed
     Remain alert for environmental
    health
     Nurse must be attentive to
    the danger
    NURSING CARE GOALS
     NURSES ROLE AT EMERGENCY AID
    STATIONS:-
     Atleast one nurse should be present at all times
    while emergency aid station is opened
    RESPONSIBILITIES OF NURSES-
    IN-CHARGE
    1. Arranging with the volunteer medical
    consultant for initial and daily health checks
    based on the health needs of shelter
    resident

    2. Establishing nursing priority and planning


    for health care supervision
    Contd.

    3. Planning for appropriate transfer of patients


    to community health care facilities as
    necessary

    4. Evaluating health care needs

    5. Arranging for secure shortage of supplies,


    equipment, records and medications
    Contd.

    6. Requesting and assigning volunteer staff to


    appropriate duties and providing on the job
    training and supervision

    7. Consultation with the food supervisor


    regarding the preparation and distribution of
    special diets including infant formulas
    Contd.

    8. Planning and recommending adequate staff


    and technicians when local health
    department initiate an immunization
    program for the shelter residents

    9. Establish line of communication with the


    health service officer
    Contd.

    10. Arranging with the mass care supervisor for


    the purchases and replacement of essential
    prescription for the persons in the shelter
    Cont…

     Nurses role in psychological

    needs of victims.
     Nurses can anticipate &prepare for the

    needs of victims as most people are


    affected by a disaster pass through
    stages of psychological response.
    Cont…

     Nurses interventions are more helpful in crisis

    reduction & counseling crisis intervention i.e.,


    Defusing &Debriefing.
     Nurses can use defense mechanism to over

    come psychological stress.


    ROLE OF A DISASTER NURSE
    IN COMMUNITY
    1 COMMUNICATOR
     To impart &transmit the disaster prediction warning

    received from various centers


     To prepare common man in disaster management

    &its mitigation

    2 TEAM CO ORDINATOR
     To work as an active member
    Cont…

     To co ordinate with different departments

    &organization involved .
     To lead a disaster health team.

    3 RESCUER
     To search & protect disaster afflicted people

     To get relief materials like food , clothes etc.


    Cont….

     To distribute relief materials .

     To make effort to get restored water &

    electricity & other public utility system.


     To assist in protecting the safe remains

    & belongings of afflicted people.


    Cont…

    4 HELTH CARE PROVIDER


     To help in shifting &transporting injured

    &afflicted people to hospitals .


     To follow Triage systems to set priorities for

    medical care.
     To provide nursing care.
    Cont…

    5 HEALTH EDUCATOR &COUNCELLOR


     To provide health information's &education

    regarding water pollution disposal of garbage's


    use of toilets &vector borne diseases.
     Counsel for claims &reimbursement &also

    console people who lost their dear ones.


    Cont…

     6 DAMAGE ASSESSOR
     To report over the damages &organize
    insurance agencies.
    7 REHABILITATOR
     To assist in reestablishing the housing

    &active part in social physical &occupational


    rehabilitation.
    THANK YOU

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