Disaster Preparedness for Nurses

Purpose

A percentage of your grade is based on your participation posts on the Discussion Board. Active participation in the online discussion helps create a learning community and gives you opportunities to work with and get to know other classmates. You should be able to discuss a topic and use supportive evidence from the literature to demonstrate reflective thought.

SLO 6: Discuss the importance of a safe environment and identify factors that may put patients at risk and nursing actions to ensure patient safety. (Program Outcomes I & IV)

This week, we’re going to be exploring the concept of disaster preparedness for nurses.

**The content in this discussion will necessarily engage with violence. Some of the content may be emotionally and intellectually challenging to engage with.**

Before writing your discussion post, please review the resources below:

Disasters.pptx
Workplace Violence.pptx
Another PowerPoint will be added later in semester for this assignment***
Task
In a new post, use the Reply button at the bottom of this page to respond to the following questions:
Briefly summarize the presentations in relation to disaster preparedness for nurses and what it means to you? You must include an academic resource in APA in your response.
Ask a question to your classmates related to what you learned?