Objectives:

Chapter 1: Essentials of Disaster Planning

• Classify the major types of disasters based on their characteristics and the impact each type of disaster has on the affected community.
• Discuss areas of focus in emergency and disaster planning: preparedness, mitigation, response, recovery, and evaluation.
• Describe risk assessment, hazard identification, and vulnerability analysis.

Chapter 5: Emergency Medical Consequence Planning for Special Events, Mass Gatherings, and Mass Casualty Incidents

• Identify three goals of emergency care at mass gatherings.
• List at least four items that a healthcare provider must be aware of in case a mass gathering should decompensate into a mass casualty incident (MCI).
• State the governing principle for disaster nursing.

Chapter 6: Legal and Ethical Issues in Disaster Response

• Describe the ethical issues unique to disasters and the resources available for nurses.
• List three ethical and legal issues that challenge nurses during disaster situations.

Chapter 9: Understanding the Psychosocial Impact of Disasters

• Identify the relationship between the type of disaster and its psychosocial impact.
• Discuss the impact of disaster trauma on first responders, including nurses involved in planning and response.

Chapter 10: Management of the Psychosocial Effects of Disasters

• Discuss the role of the mental health professional on the disaster team.
• Identify signs/symptoms of:
  • Acute stress disorder (ASD).
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Chapter 16: Nursing in Disasters, Catastrophes, and Complex and Humanitarian Emergencies

• Appreciate the scale of disasters, and how sociopolitical, economic, and cultural factors contribute to the development of complex humanitarian emergencies worldwide.
• List at least three of the strategies recommended to maintain the personal safety of nurses working in disaster relief.

Chapter 17: Natural Disasters

• Identify the major types of natural/environmental disasters and their physical, social, and economic impact.

Chapter 18: Environmental Disasters and Emergencies

• Identify the health outcomes associated with the most commonly occurring environmental disasters.

Chapter 19: Restoring Public Health Under Disaster Conditions: Basic Sanitation, Water and Food Supply, and Shelter

• Describe the ten essential functions of public health as they relate to a disaster.
• List several goals for nursing care in a disaster.

Chapter 22: Disaster Triage

• Describe the differences between:
  • Daily hospital triage.
  • Mass casualty incidents.
  • Disaster triage.
• Explain the criteria for each of the five basic primary disaster triage levels.

Chapter 23: Disaster Management

• Describe the three types of disaster planning.
• Discuss the impact of disasters on the health system’s capacity to maintain quality of care.

Chapter 24: Public Health Emergencies Involving Community Violence and Civil Unrest: Taking Planned Action

• Describe the social issues that are foundational elements in civil unrest.
• Describe the preparedness activities that will help nurses in relation to civil unrest and active shooter incidents.

Chapter 28: Biological and Chemical Terrorism: A Unique Threat

• Describe the basic categories of chemical and biological (CB) agents a nurse might encounter in an unconventional attack.
• Define the basic features of mass psychogenic illness and apply this to the public’s reaction to real or perceived threats of bioterrorism.

Chapter 32: Infectious Disease Emergencies

• Describe the relationship between emergencies and infectious diseases.
• List infectious diseases of high concern.