aspect of emergency preparedness

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After reading my classmate’s posts, I can conclude that the majority of individuals agreed that they would best contribute to the community wide response aspect of emergency preparedness. Most of my classmates are training to become registered nurses, like myself, and therefore would be responsible for assessing patients in triage, treating minor injuries, documenting overall health status, and carrying out the orders of the physicians at the scene of an incident. Some of my other classmatese stated that they would perform similar duties in professions such as physicians, nurses and as anesthesiologists. There are seven major components of preparedness during an emergency situation. These seven components are: public health surveillance, epidemiologic investigation and analysis, laboratory investigation and analysis, intervention, risk communication, preparedness planning and community-wide response. As a future health care professional and a nurse, the component that I will be able to contribute the best is community-wide response. Nurses provide leadership in all phases of emergency preparedness and response. Nurses are trained to decontaminate and triage patients as they are rapidly coming in to the emergency department. Also, private sector medical care provider deliver the bulk of triage and treatment services need when a mass causality occurs. Doctors can communicate with nurses during triage and treatment services needed for the patient more easily. For example, the doctor can do the major checkup and if the patient needs small stitching or is not as seriously injured, the doctor can move on into more serious cases as the nurses help out with the simple situations. Nurses could help by taking vitals and making sure that each person is delegated the correct job and is helping as much as they can. Nurses can supervise local resources that are needed while triaging patients. Every community during a disaster of emergency, is expected the hospital to provide the care needed in an organized and leadership way and nurses can provide all of this in an ethical manner.

Other individuals insisted that the intervention aspect of emergency preparedness was the most important. They argued that inspecting foods, medicines, and establishing health and safety standards before a disaster strikes could prevent injuries and increase medical response team efficiency. Individuals who argued this wish to be involved in health policy career fields and administrative duties.