Preparing for disasters, terrorist threats, or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public health nursing.
Disaster Preparedness
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.
(I choose Hurricane Irma that hit South Florida in 2017. I was actually stuck working at the hospital for this hurricane so I can add a lot of details.)
Please use the text book as a reference along with a an article of the event.
Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2019). Community/public health nursing: Promoting the health of populations (7th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders/Elsevier.
To access textbook: Chegg.com
ID: Jenn723@bellsouth.net
Password: Winter99