Disaster and Communicable Disease Preparedness

Disaster and Communicable Disease Preparedness

Disaster and Communicable Disease Preparedness (graded)

Preparing for disasters, terrorist threats, or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public health nursing.

Visit the website

http://www.ready.gov and http://www.ready.gov/pandemic.

Review the steps for being prepared for a disaster or pandemic.

Choose a natural or manmade disaster that could impact your community and discuss how a CHN can help the community prepare or respond to this disaster.

Choose a potential infectious disease outbreak and discuss how a CHN can help to prevent or respond to an outbreak.

How well is your community prepared for a potential outbreak or disaster?

Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2016).

Ready: Prepare. Plan. Stay informed. Retrieved from http://www.ready.gov/. Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2016).

Pandemic. Retrieved from http://www.ready.gov/pandemic.