Question

As a county health department nurse, your supervisor has informed you that the local Emergency Management Team is issuing a warning of impending disaster as an F3 tornado is expected to hit your large, metropolitan city within the hour. A. Which emergency measures would you expect to have already been in place? B. What are your potential activities during each phase of the emergency management response?

Answer 1

Measures expected to have already in place are

- Trained staff for effective performance in disaster

- Well established disaster management committee

- Trained people through mockdrills.

- Stored supplies for emergency like medications, syringes, and other raw materials etc.

Potential activities during each phase of emergency management response.

1) Mitigation phase

- Identify risk

- Analyse and evaluate risk

- Monitor and treat risk

- Risk reduction by reducing likelihood of occurrence

2) Impact and response

They are the actions taken to ensure that disaster effects are minimized and people are given immediate relief and support.

- Determine magnitude of event

- Establish priorities

-Determine resources needed

- Maintain unified chain of command

- Triaging the victim ( Red- High priority, yellow- medium priority, green- Ambulatory, Black- Dead

- Care for injured

- Referral services

3) Recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction phase

- Control of vectors

- Vaccination

- Counselling

- Behavior modification

- Water supply

- Food supply and safety

- prevention of epidemic outbreak

- Healthy food facilities in campus

- setting of shelter.