International Disaster Nursing

International Disaster Nursing is the first truly comprehensive and internationally focused resource in its field.

Robert Powers (Edited by), Elaine Daily (Edited by)

9780521168007, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 3 May 2010

636 pages
25.5 x 17.9 x 3.4 cm, 1.2 kg

The effects of a disaster on healthcare can range from conditions that immediately besiege the system with large numbers of patients, to catastrophes that strain its long-term sustainability. Nurses, as frontline health professionals, must have an understanding of the situations they may face before, during and after a disaster and they must develop the skills and strategies to provide effective and immediate care. International Disaster Nursing is the first truly comprehensive and internationally focused resource to address the diversity of issues and myriad scenarios that nurses and other health personnel could encounter during a disaster event. This text defines the many roles of the nurse within a multidisciplinary team, and aids the implementation of the community's disaster plans in a crisis. With an alarming increase in the occurrence of disasters in the last decade, International Disaster Nursing is the hallmark text in the field.

Foreword Mireille Kingma and Marvin Birnbaum
1. Introduction to disasters and disaster nursing Robert Powers
2. Healthcare facility preparedness Knox Andress
3. Community response Tricia Wachtendorf
4. First response Dario Gonzalez
5. Disaster triage Jamie Ranse and Kathryn Zeitz
6. Hospital impact: acute care Peggy McMahon
7. Hospital impact: immediate issues Andy Robertson, Hazel Harley, Bronwen Kelly, Muriel Leclercq, Wayne Snell and Robert Stewart
8. Hospital impact: long term issues Roberta Lavin
9. Hospital impact: internal disasters Theo Ligthelm
10. Incident command systems Craig Deatley
11. Chemical preparedness/response Yukiya Hakozaki
12. Biological preparedness/response Adrian Crowe
13. Radiation/nuclear preparedness/response Steven Becker, Doran Christensen, Robert Whitcomb, Jr., W. Mark Hart and Steve Sugarman
14. Explosive event preparedness/response Angelo Agostini
15. Decontamination Robert Powers
16. Populations with vulnerabilities and special needs Kelly Burkholder-Allen
17. Pediatric care in disaster Karen Olness (vignette contribution from Jonathon Mould)
18. Regional planning Douglas Havro
19. US federal resources/response Bennet Waters, Alan Cohn, Lynn Piacentini and Michael Zanker
20. International response Susan Briggs
21. Japan disaster response Satoko Mitani
22. Israeli disaster response Bruria Adini, Robert Cohen and Daniel Laor
23. Public health response Jane Richter
24. Pandemic planning Lynne Slepski
25. Health issues in humanitarian emergencies Mary Lou Fisher and Daksha Brahmbhatt
26. Mental health in disasters Margaret Grigg and Frances Hughes
27. Disaster ethics Leila Toiviainen
28. Disaster recovery Gerry Fitzgerald, Peter Aitken and Elinor Davis
29. The Southeast Asian Tsunami-response overview Elaine Daily
30. U.S. Hurricane Katrina-response review Anne Hutton
31. Disaster nursing educational competencies Lynn Slepski and Marguerite T. Littleton-Kearney
32. Disaster nursing research Dean Whitehead and Paul Arbon
33. Disaster research framework Elaine Daily.

Subject Areas: Accident & emergency nursing [MQCL1], Nursing [MQC], Accident & emergency medicine [MMK], Medicine: general issues [MB]