Emergency

Emergency

1a

• This is the outline of crucial details for exterior and internal communication. Interior communication would ensure contact with the command center as well as responsibility for creating and distribution messages to suitable parties. The communication with outside agencies provides contact with vendors and suppliers.
• Resource and assets. It is essential to understand the assets as well as resources available to the emergence team.
• Safety and security. Safety, as well as security procedures, should be acknowledged in the plan in case of an emergency. It should be clear how the hospital will liaise with the police station and national security.
• Staff responsibility. Clear information concerning the duties in the course of an emergency shows that one is prepared to react to any disaster. This is by determining who is in control information to the vendors and ensuring that whoever is responsible for the command point can perform fast.
• Utility management. The healthcare center should be able to supply utilities like water as well as electricity. Other vital utilities such as gas, fuel, and medicine, should be in place. Systems plus valve labeling are also important constituents of utilities running.
• Patients and clinical provision activities. Planning of emergency is essential in evaluating the tools and apparatus needed in case of a disaster. After a crisis, it is also recommended to assess the equipment to recognize and seal the loopholes for future success. In hospitals, as it offers continuous patients’ care regardless of the situation.
• Consistent testing assessment. In the plan, it is essential to create time for testing and

 

1b

Staff, as well as facilities, should be ready for extra emergencies, including illnesses, influenza, as well as active shooters. The emergency states must be dwelt with quickly, thoroughly, and with total care for patients and officials.

 

1c

• The shelter in place strategy should be applied where one is advised to stay in the room/place where he/she is already in to avoid more risks of attacks or spread of a contagious disease. The condition should take place until the dander is reported to be gone.
• The people in the lockdown should be provided with enough clean drinking water and canned food, first aid equipment, flashlights with enough power and an FM radio

 

1d

Communication experts, healthcare providers, food and water suppliers, and security are the key factors to be considered when implementing action strategy and movement control of residents.

 

2a

• Assembling of the team
• Conducting of risk evaluation
• Establishment of presentation objectives.
• Creation of inscribed policy
• Development of an onsite disaster management team
• Training
• Practicing and reviewing of the disaster implementation plan.

 

2b

• In the facility, the trainers, managers, and first aid team are necessary to carry out the activities.

 

3a

• Ensuring there is enough unperishable food as well as enough clean drinking water for everyone, at least a gallon per day.
• Availability of adequate medication, incontinence as wells as oxygen and first aid facilities.
• A functional FM radio with spare batteries is needed, and battery-operated flashlights.
• Have a ready communication strategy and a backup in the communication sector, For instance, landline telephone.
• Ensure there is a special preparation like provision masks, disinfectants as well as gloves for additional emergencies like diseases.

 

 

 

 

3b

• Ensuring that people from one family are together to prevent tension from the rest of the members.
• Identifying people with special health issues within their families.
• Identifying children and vulnerable older people in their families.
• Recording details of each family in writing form.

 

4a

• Forming a team. This is the first step in preparation for an emergency. The communication team comprises of administrators and an executive director. This team’s principal goals are to assess the scope plus how difficult the situation is and collect the exact data about it, then report to the director and other members of the team.
• The director and administrators are supposed to create communication, for instance, media statement and interviews that predicts inquiries from shareholders and the media. The communication should create templates of resources to facilitate the process of outreach at the beginning of the emergency.
• Knowing the stakeholders. The communication team should not only depend on the telephone to pass information. Instead, there should be more communication channels, such as the internet and mobile phones. The team should also liaise with various stakeholders in a situation of complex and unique scenarios considering their intensity.

 

4b

• The director of communication should be the only person with the last approval of every formal statement.