International disaster nursing

The effects of a disaster on healthcare can range from conditions that immediately besiege the system with large numbers of patients, to catastrophes that strain its long-term sustainability. Nurses, as frontline health professionals, must have an understanding of the situations they may face before, during and after a disaster and they must develop the skills and strategies to provide effective and immediate care. International Disaster Nursing is the first truly comprehensive and internationally focused resource to address the diversity of issues and myriad scenarios that nurses and other health personnel could encounter during a disaster event. This text defines the many roles of the nurse within a multidisciplinary team, and aids the implementation of the community's disaster plans in a crisis. With an alarming increase in the occurrence of disasters in the last decade, International Disaster Nursing is the hallmark text in the field.

På titelsiden: A publication of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

Foreword Mireille Kingma and Marvin Birnbaum; 1. Introduction to disasters and disaster nursing Robert Powers; 2. Healthcare facility preparedness Knox Andress; 3. Community response Tricia Wachtendorf; 4. First response Dario Gonzalez; 5. Disaster triage Jamie Ranse and Kathryn Zeitz; 6. Hospital impact: acute care Peggy McMahon; 7. Hospital impact: immediate issues Andy Robertson, Hazel Harley, Bronwen Kelly, Muriel Leclercq, Wayne Snell and Robert Stewart; 8. Hospital impact: long term issues Roberta Lavin; 9. Hospital impact: internal disasters Theo Ligthelm; 10. Incident command systems Craig Deatley; 11. Chemical preparedness/response Yukiya Hakozaki; 12. Biological preparedness/response Adrian Crowe; 13. Radiation/nuclear preparedness/response Steven Becker, Doran Christensen, Robert Whitcomb, Jr., W. Mark Hart and Steve Sugarman; 14. Explosive event preparedness/response Angelo Agostini; 15. Decontamination Robert Powers; 16. Populations with vulnerabilities and special needs Kelly Burkholder-Allen; 17. Pediatric care in disaster Karen Olness (vignette contribution from Jonathon Mould);

18. Regional planning Douglas Havro; 19. US federal resources/response Bennet Waters, …