Preparing Nurses for Disaster Management

For courses in Public Health Nursing and any Disaster Preparedness course offered on the undergraduate and/or graduate level.

This resource addresses issues in disaster preparedness specific to nurses in a host of practice sites. Through a compilation of research, nurses' personal experiences in disaster and trauma care, firsthand accounts from the authors and other experts in bioterrorism and disaster preparedness, this resource introduces students to basic disaster nursing and works to help prepare them for a wide spectrum of settings and situations that are relevant in today's world.

Features include:

Procedures described in a step-by-step format.
Offers students an easily accessible compilation of accepted response protocols to a host of situations so they are equipped with a working knowledge of procedures in the field.

CDC response protocols included
Introduces students to relevant areas such as notification procedures and submission of suspicious biologic samples.

Firsthand accounts
From disaster survivors, first responders, trauma nurses, and parents. Enhances students' understanding of the effects of disaster on victims, families, communities, and responders.

Story boxes throughout
Presents students with a heightened sense of realism through personal stories from trauma nurses, physicians and nurses in the battlefield, and survivors of natural disasters.

Pedagogical aids
Including chapter objectives, case studies, self-tests, and discussion questions. Helps the reader engage in self-study or course review.

Authors: Joanne C. Langan, Ph.D., RN; and Dotti C. James
Published: October 2004
ISBN: 0-13-178069-7
272 Pages