NURS FPX 6020 Assessment 2 Disaster Management Plan

NURS FPX 6020 Assessment 2 Disaster Management Plan Student Name Capella University NURS-FPX6020 Advanced Nursing Practice 1: Biopsychosocial Concepts Professor Name Submission Date Disaster Management Plan Slide: 01 Hello everyone, my name is Melody. In this presentation, I will analyze the infection control disaster management plans designed after Hurricane Ian in order to show the level of efficiency, equity, and system coordination that the plans demonstrate within patient care in any given emergency situation. Slide: 02 Hurricanes like Ian present numerous challenges to the practice of public health and the control of preventable communicable diseases in the southwest region of Florida. Increased shelter populations create viral populations. Contaminated water creates an environment for numerous waterborne illnesses. Substandard health infrastructure creates an increasingly favorable environment for illness spread to populations that are most at risk. To respond to the challenges presented, mobile health units, public health, and the control of preventable communicable disease and sanitation interventions, and the infection control and health care worker training are just a few of the areas to be addressed (Tehler et al., 2024). Disaster management plans that combine ethical decision-making and communication with minority inclusion and a teamwork attitude provide the most equitable and resilient care to the population of clients impacted. Slide: 03 Evidence-Based Interventions Crowded shelters, contaminated water, disrupted health and sanitation services, and affected centers all raise the challenges of potential health and communicable disease outbreaks in the aftermath of a natural disaster like Hurricane Ian in Southwest Florida. One of the recommended strategies to minimize the adverse health impacts on a population is the deployment of mobile health units within 24 to 72 hours of the emergency. Mobile health units staffed by registered nurses and protective supplies and equipment, wound care, and vaccines for tetanus, hepatitis A, and influenza, as well as the provision of health and hygiene, are safe, accessible, and worry-free health services. Tehler et al. (2024) indicated that with the use of mobile clinics, the number of infection-related emergency calls in the affected communities is greatly reduced. Slide: 04 Hygiene and sanitation considerations in disaster response require the provision of portable toilets and facilities for sanitation and washing hands. Such infrastructure helps control disease outbreaks in disaster situations where there is an absence of proper sanitation. It has been observed in previous disasters that providing water and sanitation services immediately helps to control outbreaks of gastrointestinal diseases and other skin infections, as was the case in the aftermath of the 2010 disaster. Haiti earthquake. The presence of and easy access to such amenities improve the overall health status for all, particularly for at-risk and especially vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, as well as those with disabilities. Slide: 05 Training in infection prevention and control (IPC) becomes the focus of aid workers and volunteers. In the absence of such training, infection control in shelters will be impossible, thereby creating more risk to the health of shelter users. Training in the proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE), cleaning of surfaces, and dealing with symptomatic persons is of great value. These trainings, according to Rosen et al. (2023), eliminate the challenges of maintaining safety in disaster response and become more beneficial to the safety of aid workers and the persons they were meant to assist. Providing the PPE to families helps to ensure that infection control measures become the responsibility of the families. Slide: 06 There is a requirement for a multilingual public health advertising campaign to boost the likelihood of adherence to optimal infection control practices. Employing social media, text message alerts, radio, and printed flyers in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole offers the opportunity to communicate with people from various backgrounds. Communication, when you have an understanding of the cultural background, reduces the chances of misinformation, promotes early treatment seeking, and helps to communicate the importance of hygiene. According to Raker et al. (2020), these specific interventions offer an umbrella under which a combination of various effective strategies for infection control in research-prone settings is placed, thus offering a non-discriminatory public health-focused approach to the response to the disaster. These approaches are suitable as they are in accordance with various established strategies of health equity, optimal community involvement, and rapid approaches to public health emergency response that ensure openness of the best use of resources to reduce the burden of avoidable morbidity and mortality. Slide: 07 Ethical Decision Making In the decision-making process for ethical disaster response, consideration for diversity, equity, and inclusion means individuals must be afforded the opportunity to be responded to, protected, and cared for. Review of Community health records and stakeholder interviews indicated the need for support for disaster management for vulnerable populations, including those who speak non-English languages, the elderly, and persons with physical disabilities, particularly in the management of disaster relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2023). These tenets guided the planning process to ensure that no policy promotes discrimination against any group. One of the strategies for managing inclusion funded the translation of all communication related to health promotion, emergency communication, and hygiene promotion, into the most frequently used languages in the community, namely Spanish and Haitian Creole (Dehghani et al., 2022). This approach eliminates the dominant language bias and carries the implicit assumption that for communication to be English-dominant, it must also be understood or be accessible to persons with limited English proficiency, low literacy, and poor eyesight. Such intense focus and planning create equitable opportunity for the clients to access the information, thus empowering the clients to make informed decisions in a time of crisis. The plan incorporates the use of ADA-compliant facilities and transport for persons who have mobility impairments. Individuals with disabilities have routinely been overlooked in the planning of rapid response strategies for previous disasters and, as a consequence, have sustained some of the highest mortality and injury rates (International Disability Alliance 2023). In an effort not to replicate these outcomes, the current plan incorporates the concepts of universal