Your disaster planning team is assessing the community to develop ...

[joe]

Your disaster planning team is assessing the community to develop an effective disaster plan. What would you assess?
 
  1. Review data on health status of various vulnerable populations in the community.
  2. Determine who will pay for damages to homes and businesses.
  3. The types of healthcare services available and how easily it would be to get to them in a disaster.
  4. Review data about past individual purchases of food and water when warned of potential storm.
  5. What social institutions including religious have been involved in past and how could they be involved in the future.

Question 2

Which patient is most likely to benefit from using a rapid-response team (RRT)?
 
  1. A 10-year-old in the Emergency Department
  2. A 51-year-old in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
  3. A 73-year-old on a urology unit
  4. A 43-year-old in a physician's office

[aloop]

Answer to Question 1

1, 3, 4, 5
Explanation: 1. Recognize the importance of health needs of the population.
2. Determining who will pay for damages is important, but not done until a disaster actually occurs; could vary depending on the disaster.
3. Access to services should be assessed.
4. Assessing community planning in the past including individuals is important.
5. Assessing social conditions and community support is important.

Answer to Question 2

3
Explanation: 1. RRTs are teams of critical care experts who come to the bedside of patients who are not in intensive care. The ED generally has experts present, so this team would not be used.
2. RRTs are teams of critical care experts who come to the bedside of patients who are not in intensive care. This patient is already in ICU.
3. This patient is not on a unit where critical care experts would normally work. This patient would be a candidate from treatment by a RRT.
4. RRTs are hospital based and would not be available to this patient.

[joe]

TYSM

[mcabuhat]

Great answer, keep it coming