Week 5: Disaster Preparedness

Week 5: Disaster Preparedness

Week 5: Disaster Preparedness (graded)

Purpose
This week’s graded topics relate to the following Course Outcomes (COs).

CO 3: Plan prevention and population-focused interventions for vulnerable populations using professional clinical judgment and evidence-based practice. (PO 4 and 8)
CO 6: Utilize a systems-based and collaborative approach to address factors that influence the health of a community and population health problems. (PO 2)
Discussion
Preparing for disasters, terrorist threats, or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public health nursing.

Share an overview of a natural or human-made disaster that has occurred in your area in the last 20 years.
Include a URL and reference to the event. This may be a news article.
Describe how your community was impacted.
Describe lessons learned and changes made to preparedness.
Grading
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Solution Preview

When it comes to disasters, they do not discriminate to whom it affects, and their impacts can be quite devastating to human life. In recent years, disasters; both manmade and natural have taken a toll on people’s lives and caused a massive destruction of property (Davis, Wilson, Brock-Martin, Glover & Svendsen, 2010).

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