ReadyRN: Handbook for Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness, 2e

ReadyRN: Handbook for Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness, 2e Review

This color-coded, rapid-reference text includes all of the essential information you need to manage any disaster or emergency with mass casualties. Coverage of each category of disaster-weather-related, public health, infectious disease, chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear, and explosive-offers vital content on dealing with the injuries and nursing protocols for each scenario. Plus, information on disaster sites and clinical management prepares you to take action at the scene or in the hospital setting.

• Provides the need-to-know information on emerging infectious diseases, such as Swine Flu, including:




• Distinguishing Pandemic Influenza from annual seasonal influenza.


• Assessing and managing patients with quarantinable infectous diseases.


• Preventing further transmission.


• Critical Info feature highlights the most important points from each chapter.Assessment illustrations show characteristic symptoms and make it easy to identify signs of illness quickly.


• Icons alert you to important information to consider before approaching a patient, including personal risk, contagion, and reporting obligations.


• Color-coded sections and coordinated thumb tabs make it easy to find important information at a glance.


• Chapter outlines provide page references for each major section within the chapter.


• Glossary and Acronyms section includes the most commonly used acronyms and terms you'll need in emergency situations.


• Family Disaster Plan appendix offers vital information on creating a personal disaster plan, and Family Risk icons alert you to dangers that may be carried to your family.


• Contacts appendix provides federal agency contact information, as well as space for you to fill in local emergency contacts for increased efficiency in a disaster.

Emergency Preparedness

Emergency Preparedness Review

Potential terrorist attacks and the possibility of naturally occurring disease outbreaks have raised concerns about the 'surge capacity' of the nation's health care systems to respond to mass casualty events. GAO identified four key components of preparing for medical surge: increasing hospital capacity, identifying alternate care sites, registering medical volunteers, and planning for altering established standards of care. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the primary agency for hospital preparedness, including medical surge. This is an edited and excerpted edition.

Just in Case: How to be Self-Sufficient when the Unexpected Happens

Just in Case: How to be Self-Sufficient when the Unexpected Happens Review

When the power fails, prepared families settle in, stay warm, and eat well. With careful planning, organization, and a detailed assessment of the needs of each family member, it is possible for every household to survive at least several days with no outside services. A sensible home system will take over the work of providing warmth, shelter, and nutrition.

Author Kathy Harrison guides readers through the empowering process of setting up such a home system with her OAR method — Organize existing supplies, Acquire additional necessities, Rotate everything for freshness. Her comprehensive coverage of emergency preparedness includes food storage, alternative heating sources, personal supplies for every family member, entertainment ideas, toiletry and proper clothing, pet supplies, emergency family communication plans, and neighborhood cooperatives.

In addition to preparing the home for extended periods without electricity, Harrison also discusses evacuation plans — where to go, how to meet up with family, what to pack, and how best to protect all that’s being left behind. Self-sufficiency at home or in a temporary safe haven takes away much of the fear and helplessness associated with disasters. Just in Case puts the power back in the hands of individuals who are equipped and ready to take over when public services fail.

Disasters can strike an entire region or a single unlucky family. They can be brought on by weather (hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, severe heat or cold, landslides) or by man (terrorism, acts of war, simple human error). Whatever the cause, these catastrophic events have the potential to disrupt routines and cost money and lives. Why not be one of the prepared few? Just in case . . .

Review
With the assumption that "many of us have a false sense of security... assuming that technology will prevail or that some government agency will bail us out in a crisis," this extensive guide gives detailed, down-to-earth advice on what to do when disaster strikes, be it a house fire, an ice storm or biological terrorism. Aided by charmingly retro illustrations vaguely reminiscent of a 1940s air raid brochure, Harrison (Another Place at the Table) presents her "OAR" system for preparedness—organizing, acquiring and rotating supplies—and techniques to safely and even comfortably survive any kind of emergency. She shows how to prepare for a short-term crisis: building a supply of food and water; preparing first aid and evacuation kits; planning communication and a family meeting place in times of crisis. She also presents long-term strategies for self-sufficiency: "eliminating debt and securing a supply of cash in your home"; planting a garden, canning food and making cheese; replacing an inefficient fireplace with a woodstove; building a solar oven. Harrison shows that learning to do it yourself, besides providing some security in an increasingly insecure world, brings less obvious but perhaps equally important benefits: "an incredible sense of self-sufficiency and independence." And pointing out that family preparedness can build community, she reminds readers, "crisis can bring out the best in people, or the worst. Strive to be one of the good guys."
(Publishers Weekly, August 2008)

Dispensing Medical Countermeasures for Public Health Emergencies: Workshop Summary

Dispensing Medical Countermeasures for Public Health Emergencies: Workshop Summary Review

On March 3-4, 2008, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events hosted a workshop titled 'Medical Countermeasures Dispensing'. The overall objective was to discuss a range of solutions to rapidly provide medical countermeasures to protect large numbers of people prior to or during a public health emergency, such as a bioterrorist attack or infectious disease outbreak.The United States is currently unprepared to confront the range of threats it is facing, such as an intentional anthrax release, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), or pandemic influenza, and it must plan aggressively to counteract the threat of these and other future public health emergencies. Countermeasure dispensing must harness all types of imaginative partnerships between public and private institutions, working together in ways tailored to meet individual community needs. This workshop summary highlights the presentations and subsequent discussion that occurred at the workshop.

Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life Review

With the same sharp eye, quick with, and narrative drive that marked his bestsellers The Game, The Dirt, and How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Neil Strauss takes us on a white-knuckled journey through America's heart of darkness as he scrambles to escape the system. It's one man's story of a dangerous world—and how to stay alive in it.

Introduction to Emergency Management

Introduction to Emergency Management Review

The ultimate goal of every emergency management professional is to help citizens and communities prepare for natural, technological, or terrorist threats in order to mitigate damage and save lives. Providing an insider’s glimpse into this rewarding career, Introduction to Emergency Management engages readers in real-life case studies, integrating scientific findings with practitioner viewpoints to reveal the challenge of a field in service of communities and people at risk from disasters.

An overview of the field

Beginning with a history of emergency management, the book defines core concepts to help readers understand the field, explore the relevance and types of disaster research, and examine trends behind disasters and new and emerging hazards. From there, it goes on to outline various career tracks within emergency management with a focus on core competencies, ethical practice standards, certification issues, and the responsibilities of the emergency manager. Boxed features written by graduates of emergency management programs and expert practitioners from around the world provide real world insights.

All stages of emergency management

The book discusses in detail the various phases of the disaster cycle—including preparedness and planning, the response phase, short- and long-term recovery, and structural and non-structural mitigation. Core chapters conclude with guidance on working and volunteering in each of these phases. Final chapters explore the role of public and private sector partnerships and non-governmental organizations in emergency management. A concluding chapter offers guidance to students seeking careers and further study in the field.

Case studies and learning tools

Throughout the book, contributors from around the world offer their insight and experience on a host of disasters. Each chapter begins with learning objectives and includes discussion questions, references, and additional resources at the end of each chapter.

Expert authors

The writing team combines its collective experience of teaching and research in the field to offer classroom-tested content. Brenda D. Phillips has conducted research on disasters, specializing in social vulnerability, since 1982. David M. Neal, who has organized classes on the subject since 1979, brings the most extensive teaching experience on the topic to any existing text. Gary R. Webb, a well known disaster sociologist specializing in organizational response, has been involved in the field since 1994. Their collective years of experience bring authoritative expertise to this volume.

The True Golden Hour: How People Respond in Emergencies

The True Golden Hour: How People Respond in Emergencies Review

The True Golden Hour offers a unique understanding of the latest findings on population reaction to natural or man-made disasters all over the world; and in particular enhanced by Israeli extensive experience. This updated edition of the book shows that, contrary to popular belief, people can deal with pressures derived from the most difficult emergency situations such as floods, fires, earthquakes, and more. Prof. Granot, a leading Israeli authority with recognized international standing in this area, has extensive background in civil defense practice.

In The True Golden Hour, he combines comprehensive knowledge of worldwide research on human behavior under extreme circumstances with his own practical experience during the Gulf War.

Pet Emergency Preparedness

Pet Emergency Preparedness Review

Recent events in my neighborhood shook me to my core and made me realize just how helpless our pets can be during emergencies.
I love all animals, especially house pets. Over the years, I’ve shared my home with turtles, fish, gerbils, cats, birds, and dogs...not all at the same time! I just hate to imagine my loved ones helpless...
I decided to do something about it. I threw myself into research and investigation to figure out how best to take care of animals when crisis strikes. I watched videos, read books, scoured the Internet, contacted emergency preparedness organizations and humane societies, and met with professionals in the fields of emergency preparedness and veterinary work.
The end result is this booklet. You'll find everything you need to prepare your pet for an emergency or disaster - from housefire to hurricane, First Aid to Pet Buddy - your pet will be prepared! The information is presented in easy-to-follow steps. Trust me - you'll sleep better after following this information.

Geriatric Mental Health Disaster and Emergency Preparedness

Geriatric Mental Health Disaster and Emergency Preparedness Review

"Geriatric Mental Health Disaster and Emergency Preparedness significantly contributes to the somewhat limited literature available on this topic."

--The Gerontologist

"This is a must-read book for clinicians, service providers, policy makers, program planners, and teachers in the fields of mental health, aging, and emergency preparedness."

--Robert N. Butler, MD (From the Foreword)

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the essential information that everyone working, or hoping to work in the field of aging, should know about disasters, emergencies, and their effects on the mental health and well-being of older persons. It provides the reader with evidence-based approaches for identifying and classifying mental health problems, such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, and substance use disorders in older adults, which may occur during and post disasters/emergencies.

Specific attention is given to the special needs and approaches to the care of at-risk groups of older persons such as veterans and holocaust survivors; older adults who are isolated, dependent, have mobility problems, communication deficits, are cognitively impaired, or have other co-morbidities; elders who use meals-on-wheels, vital medications, or home care; or older persons who are in senior centers, nursing homes, or assisted living settings.

Key features:

• Increases understanding of the mental health issues in older adults
• Provides tools that can foster resiliency and recovery at the community, group, and individual levels
• Influences the development of positive responses to disasters; that is, responses that have the potential to minimize adverse mental and physical outcomes in older persons and maximize individual and group recovery

Emergency Preparedness The Right Way

Emergency Preparedness The Right Way Review

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: The Right Way is designed to help the average family prepare for emergencies. Chapters include the amounts and types of foods you need to store. Learn how to package your food for long-term storage. Know what to do when the power grid fails. How do you cook your food and light your home? What type of medical supplies should you have on hand? If the water system fails, how do you purify your drinking water? All this and more is included in this easy to read book.

Emergency Items for Storage and Your 72-Hour Kit

Emergency Items for Storage and Your 72-Hour Kit Review

This informative book contains sixteen pages of tips for emergency items to have in your emergency storage. No longer will you have to piece together information from different sources in order to get what your need to know to be prepared for an emergency. This book includes it all in one place!

You will be provided with a list of the best emergency supplies to have available at home in case you need to hunker down as well as items you will need in the event you are forced to leave.

You will also find information on how to build a first aid kit from scratch as well as how to supply a 72 hour grab and go kit with proper supplies. A one page list of healthy food suggestions will be very helpful for those who want more than the standard survival foods. Emergency Items for Your Storage and 72-Hour Emergency Kit will save you time and energy in gathering the information that you need to have right now!

The London attacks: training to respond in a mass transit environment: hearing before the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and ... One Hundred Ninth Congress, first se

The London attacks: training to respond in a mass transit environment: hearing before the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and ... One Hundred Ninth Congress, first se Review

LC Number: KF27 .H573 2005b OCLC Number: (OCoLC)70680805 Subject: Local transit -- Security measures -- United States. Excerpt: ...ising attackers anonymity and easy escape. And attacks on mass transit, the circulatory systems of urban areas, can cause widespread fear to really disrupt economic activity and kill or injure large numbers of people. Addressing transit security is complicated by the nature and scope of mass transit. More than 6,000 agencies provide mass transit services, such as bus, subway, ferry and light rail--more than 26 million Americans on a daily basis. And to remain competitive, transit agencies must offer convenient, inexpensive and quality service. The deployment of metal detectors, X-ray machines, explosive detection devices, enhanced searches of passengers and baggage, which of course are accepted now at airports, cannot be transferred easily to subway and/or bus stops. Delays would be enormous and the costs would be extremely large and mass transit could in fact grind to a halt. But that does not mean that we should not be doing more to increase security. It is difficult and it is vulnerable, but it does not mean we should stand back and do nothing more. To the contrary, mass transit systems can develop many effective countermeasures to make attacks more difficult, increase the likelihood of detection, minimize casualties and disruption and reduce panic. Many measures involve only modest expense. Improving liaison with state and local first responders, conducting vulnerability and security assessments, establishing emergency management plans, instituting preventive controls, holding tabletop exercises and full-scale drills, and putting in place procedures to handling bomb threats and left or suspicious objects are not particularly costly undertakings. Just this weekend, in fact, I met a retired New York City police officer who mentioned the possibility--I am going to ask this of the M...