HNN120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stoicism, Role Model, Natural Disaster
HNN120
LOCAL AND GLOBAL ISSUES IN NURSING
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How might global issues such as climate change and peak petroleum impact on health care over
the course of your career?
Limitations of lack of oil:
- Transportation of patients, staff, goods and equipment
- Inability to produce cheap/disposable plastics
Changing of environment:
- Increasing incident of acute health problems such as thunderstorm asthma
- Impact of extreme weather on vulnerable populations
- Injuries and illness related to natural disasters
What is the role of the nurse during a natural disaster or other mass casualty event?
- Preparation/prevention: community and hospital drills, advocating for vulnerable
populations with planned activities
- Understanding principles of isolation, quarantine, containment and decontamination and
help in developing a plan for the community
- Response: managing scarce resources
- Coordinating care
- Determining if standards if care should be altered
- Making appropriate referrals
- Triage and assessment
- Pandemic infection management and evaluation
- Recovery: supporting those with physical and mental health needs
- Chronic disease, mental illness and disability monitoring for risk of complications
- Referrals for housing, food and other government agencies
How might a disaster impact on health care services and nursing care?
- How might care change with shortages of power, water, medical supplies or staffing levels
What ethical challenges might a mass casualty or disaster event raise for health practitioners?
- Rationing medications such as vaccinations
- Restritios o people’s lierties/aess to ad fro healthare services
- Responsibilities of healthcare professionals to continue to provide care and treatment when
it places them and/or their families at risk
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