Hat Task 4
HAT Task #4
The major role of a public health personnel, including a public heath nurse is contributing specific skills in times of disaster such as assessing, priority setting, collaboration, and addressing of both preventive and acute care needs.In addition, public health nurses have the skills to serves their community well in disaster to include health education, physical and psychosocial needs. During the disaster the public health nurse worked together with other other disciplines such as the operation chief who was incharge of search and rescue, the logistic 's chief who arrange for temperary housing and communication network and the public health department who inspected food and safe water. The collaborations enhanced the emergency response infrastructure at different levels.
The chain of command that was used in the simulation for the community health nurse is as follows;Incident commander, Operations section chief, Medical/Health branch director, Public health group, Public Health Nursing Supervisor, Community Health nurse.
Community health nurses collaborate with other experts, including environmentalists, epidemiologists, laboratory workers, biostatisticians, physicians, social workers and many others disciplines to deal with a situation that is outside the nurse 's scope of practice.
The Community health nurse encountered four possible emergency situations during her door to door interview.First, one person had flooding in his basement and a spill of unknown mixed chemicals.The second situation the nurse encounter was a mother of a baby who did not know where her husband was, she had run out of diapers, baby wipes, formula and drinking water. To make matters worse she had her mother in law to take care of as well.The third situation the nurse encountered was with a lady by the name of rosario who only spoke spanish.She asked the lady using hand gestures to allow her walk around the house so she can begin her assessment of the home. The nurse
The major role of a public health personnel, including a public heath nurse is contributing specific skills in times of disaster such as assessing, priority setting, collaboration, and addressing of both preventive and acute care needs.In addition, public health nurses have the skills to serves their community well in disaster to include health education, physical and psychosocial needs. During the disaster the public health nurse worked together with other other disciplines such as the operation chief who was incharge of search and rescue, the logistic 's chief who arrange for temperary housing and communication network and the public health department who inspected food and safe water. The collaborations enhanced the emergency response infrastructure at different levels.
The chain of command that was used in the simulation for the community health nurse is as follows;Incident commander, Operations section chief, Medical/Health branch director, Public health group, Public Health Nursing Supervisor, Community Health nurse.
Community health nurses collaborate with other experts, including environmentalists, epidemiologists, laboratory workers, biostatisticians, physicians, social workers and many others disciplines to deal with a situation that is outside the nurse 's scope of practice.
The Community health nurse encountered four possible emergency situations during her door to door interview.First, one person had flooding in his basement and a spill of unknown mixed chemicals.The second situation the nurse encounter was a mother of a baby who did not know where her husband was, she had run out of diapers, baby wipes, formula and drinking water. To make matters worse she had her mother in law to take care of as well.The third situation the nurse encountered was with a lady by the name of rosario who only spoke spanish.She asked the lady using hand gestures to allow her walk around the house so she can begin her assessment of the home. The nurse
References: Olson.(2008).Disaster in Franklin County: A Public Health Simulation Retrieved from https://cpheo1.sph.umn.edu/fcs/index.asp Association of State and Territorial Directors of Nursing.(2007).The Role of Public Health Nurses In Emergency Preparedness and Response. Retrieved from http://www.astdn.org