Homework: Natural Disaster and the Role of Public Health Nurse
1) Create a power point with the intended audience to be a community health department.
2) Focus on a real or fictional disaster that has or could affect your area. For example, if you live on the Florida coast you might choose potential hurricane.
Topic for the assignment is hurricane
1) Discuss the role of the Community Health Nurse in each stage of disaster. You should include a few slides on each stage of disaster: preparedness, response, recovery with specific activities and resources that the public health nurse would use in each stage.(Please refer to Chapter 25 for the stages Page 722)
2) Identify other agencies that might be involved.
(Such as the, Police and emergency response team, organizations such the American Red Cross, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),The HHS National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), HHS Office of Emergency Preparedness (OEP)
Other organization involved may be: salvation army, Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), The Humane Society of the United States, The World Vision)
The assignment should be submitted in Power Point format, with at least 15 content slides (in addition to a title slide and reference slide) and include at least two scholarly sources(less than 5 years old) other than provided materials.
1) Clark, M. J. (2015). Population and community health nursing (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Chapter 25
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.