Nursing management in disaster.

1. FIRST AID
UNIT -IV.
COMMUNITY EMERGENCIES & COMMUNITY RESOURCES.
MARKAD RAVINDRA A.
BROTHERTUTOR,
SCHOOL OF NURSING,
K.E.M. HOSPITAL PAREL MUMBAI -12

2. DEFINITION OF DISASTER.
•An occurrence, either the natural or man-
made that causes human suffering and
Creates human needs that victims cannot
alleviate without assistance.
-The American Red Cross.

3. DISASTER alphabetically means.
•D - Destruction.
•I- Incident.
•S- Suffering.
•A -Administrative.
•S- Sentiments.
•T-Tragedies.
•E – eruption of communicable diseases.
•R – Research program and its implementation.

4. DISASTER NURSING
•It is a different age, professional nursing skill, knowledge, attitude
in recognizing and meeting the nursing health, emotional needs
of disaster victim.

5. GOALS OF DISASTER NURSING.
•To provide basic survival needs of affected population.
•To identify the possibility of a secondary disaster.
•Estimate the risk and resource in the environment.
•To create inequality in access to healthcare or appropriate
resource
•Encourages survivors to participate in their own health
plans and well-being.
•To promote the highest. Achievable quality of life for
survivors.

7. TYPES OF DISATER
• Natural :-
• Man-made :-

10. EMERGENCY NURSING MANAGEMENT.
1)Initial crisis management.
• A)Search and Rescue:The top priority in disaster management is to search for the afflicted
people in the affected areas transport them.To save, place this process known as SAR (Search
and Rescue )
• B)Transportation of victims: Immediately after the disaster, every person rushed to health
services.
• C) classification of injured triage:
• Yeah, the principle of first come, first created is not applicable. Due to lack of resources to meet
the needs of injured people the priority of treatment is decided by the process of instant
classification.

11. TRIAGE system

12. TRIAGE TAG.
•Price tag is prefabricated label place on each
patient that helps.
•Identify the patient.
•Content record assessment findings.
•Identify priority of patient needs for medical
treatment and transport from emergencies
scenes.
•Identify additional hazards.

13. INTERMEDIATE MANAGEMENT OR RELIEF PHASE.
A) epidemiological
surveillance.
B) Control and
prevention of
diseases.
C) Residential facilities.
D)Water and electronic
arrangement.
E) food arrangement.
F) communication system.
G) Sanitation.
H) safety and living
Facilities.

14. •D) identification of death and care of dead bodies:
•Therefore identification and care of dead bodies is an
important part in disaster.
•To remove the dead bodies from disaster site, determine
their identity, keep them in maturity, arrange the
postmortem proper care of dead bodies, ensuring them to
their relative, performing last rites to unclaimed the bodies.
Are the importance aspect of disaster management. It
should kept in mind that dear always lies or risk of epidemics
spreading due to the decades and infected bodies.

15. POST DISASTER ACTIVITY.
A) Evaluation of harm and damages.
B) Rehabilitation.
After occurrence of disaster, rehabilitation programme can
be classified following heads.
1) Development of infrastructure and housing.
2) Social and psychological rehabilitation.
3) Economical rehabilitation.
4) Environmental rehabilitation.

16. Community health nurse ROLE in disaster management.
•Communicators.
•Team coordinators.
•Rescuer.
•Healthcare provider.
•Health educator and councillor.
•Damage assessor.
•Rehabilitator