Disasters Procedures for Emergency Situations

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Disasters Procedures for Emergency Situations
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A disaster can be any event that disrupts the
normal activities of your health care facility or
community.
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Health Care Facility Disasters

• epidemics
• poisonings
• loss of power
• criminal activities
• fires in facility

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Community Disasters

• floods
• tornadoes
• earthquakes
• terrorist incidents
• airplane accidents
• bombs
• epidemics
• fires

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Cont Community Disasters

• Sometimes called mass-casualty disasters
• Your facility will receive emergency patients
• Your facility can become a triage (screening a
  number of disaster victims to determine who has
  the most severe injuries and needs to be treated
  first) center.
• As HCW, you will have to work with outside
• medical personnel, emergency personnel, and
  the CDC (Center for Disease Control).

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Disaster or Evacuation Plan

• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care
  Organization requires healthcare facilities to
  have a disaster plan.
• The plan should include
• chain of command
• transporting pts.

• determining pt
• destinations
• handling pt. with special needs
• defining staff responsibilities
• conducting training drills
• planning for recovery

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• Evacuating within the facility (internal) or
  outside (external) the facility-
• Internal- Pt and personnel shall remain in a
  secured areas until a All Clear has been given.
• External- Pts moved to another facility by
  ambulance or other transportation.

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3 main principles HCW need to follow in a disaster

• Stay calm
• follow the policy of the health care facility
• provide safety of yourself and patient
• HCW are legally responsible for familiarizing
  themselves with disaster policies so appropriate
  action can be taken when a disaster strikes

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Assisting with Non-ambulatory (cant walk) pt.

• Use wheelchairs
• Two person- Use a blanket and work with two
  persons on either side of the blanket to carry a
  person
• One person-Lie the pt. on a blanket and drag
  the pt. to safety
• Two person- one worker squats at the pts
  head, reaches under the pt. arms from behind and
  the second person squats between the pts knees
  and grasps the outside of the pts legs.