Disaster nursing and emergency preparedness for chemical, biological, and radiological terrorism and other hazards /
In this third edition Dr. Veenema continues her mission to help our nation's nurses develop the knowledge and skills needed to efficiently and effectively respond to disasters. Many times nurses assume that they aren't emergency responders, so they don't need to understand how the sys...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Springer Publishing Company,
2013.
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Essentials of disaster planning
- Leadership and coordination in disaster health care systems : the U.S. national response framework
- Emergency health services
- Hospital and emergency department preparedness
- Human services in disasters and public health emergencies : social disruption, individual empowerment, and community resilience
- Understanding the psychosocial impact of disasters
- Management of the psychosocial effects of disasters
- American Red Cross disaster health services and disaster nursing : national capability-local community impact
- Legal and ethical issues in disaster response
- Crisis communication : the role of the media
- Disaster management
- Disaster triage
- Emergency medical consequence planning for special events, mass gatherings, and mass casualty incidents
- Management of burn mass casualty incidents
- Traumatic injury due to explosives and blast effects
- Natural disasters
- Restoring public health under disaster conditions : basic sanitation, water and food supply, and shelter
- Climate change and the nurse's role in policy and practice
- Environmental disasters and emergencies
- Complex humanitarian emergencies
- Disaster relief nursing in the 21st century
- Biological and chemical terrorism : a unique threat
- Surveillance systems for detection of biological events
- Biological agents of concern
- Early recognition and detection of biological events
- Infectious disease emergencies
- Medical countermeasures dispensing
- Chemical agents of concern
- Decontamination and personal protective equipment
- Radiological incidents and emergencies
- Identifying and accommodating high risk, high vulnerability populations in disasters
- Unique needs of children during disasters and other public health emergencies
- Disaster nursing in schools and other community congregate child care settings
- Care of the pregnant woman and newborn following a disaster
- Caring for patients with HIV and AIDS following a disaster
- Information technology in disaster management
- National nurse preparedness : achieving competency based practice
- The role of the public health nurse in disaster response
- Directions for disaster nursing research and development.