NURS FPX 4060 Assessment 3 Disaster Recovery Plan Part 4 Benefits of Disaster Recovery Plan

Disaster recovery planning will aid organisations in recovering quickly after a disaster by delegating tasks and roles during the recovery phase, identifying and triaging patients based on injuries sustained, identifying hospitals based on triage level, identifying community resources that are available post disaster, connecting displaced individuals with housing resources, addressing social, cultural, economic issue post disaster at months 3, 6, 9, 12 and so on.

Part 5 

The availability of resources in catastrophe planning/response is determined by state and local governments. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has created regulations with local governments for emergency planning and response programmes that are accessible to persons with disabilities. For example, in the emergency preparedness process, those with disabilities should be included. It creates a strategy for evacuating people with impairments. It assists in the identification and planning of secure shelter for people with impairments and makes a strategy to get people back to their homes. The other is the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, which establishes a systemic approach to catastrophe response and collaborates with FEMA to reduce disaster effect (Robert, 2020). It locates emergency aid and disaster relief organisations, addresses unmet needs, and prepares families and communities for long-term survival.

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The MAP-IT framework, which was adopted from the Health People 2020 project, is used to design and assess public health initiatives such as disaster recovery. The mobilisation of collaborating partners is the initial stage in the process. This entails defining what the rehabilitation effort’s ultimate aim should be. In the instance of the Villa Health community that has been impacted by the storms, the first priority should be to work with local EMS organisations to develop a strategy to reach and care for individuals who have been injured and require emergency medical assistance. Discussions with hospital employees should include their triage procedure as well as which hospitals will be receiving patients. Furthermore, a search and rescue team should be established with the expectation of being sent into the community after the immediate threat has passed. State and government authorities will be among the collaborative partners, as the disaster’s consequences will most certainly exceed the community’s resources. 

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The MAP-IT framework’s second phase is to assess. During this process, the following questions are asked: who is affected? What resources are required to achieve objectives? What resources are available to achieve the objectives? These questions help the team understand what can and cannot be done, as well as what the team wants to do. Working as a team is also an important aspect of this process of cooperation. This entails each community leader and major stakeholder identifying the most pressing concerns and working together to address them. EMS leaders, hospital administration and clinical leaders, utility company executives, and other community leaders should all be involved in this circumstance. The Villa Health population is varied, with its own set of demands and resources (Diedrich, 2020). There are a large number of older persons who live in nursing homes or assisted living facilities. These patients will require medicine as well as electricity to power equipment such as oxygen tanks. There are also a lot of uninsured patients who don’t have enough money, which makes them more susceptible to sickness. Finally, a small number of homeless persons in the Villa Health neighbourhood will need to be relocated to shelters before the storms hit.

Part 8

During the assessment phase, it’s critical to think about the health factors that will have an influence on the community’s recovery efforts. Just as public health practitioners realise the need of taking these social factors into account when delivering high-quality health care, disaster recovery efforts should also take this into account to avoid creating or exacerbating inequalities. It entails the following: Collaboration with municipal managers as a resource for social services information. It is critical that they be in the same place to enable conversation. This improves teamwork and provides immediate help as well as the possibility for long-term resource enhancement. The participation of community members is also crucial in reducing the impact of socioeconomic inequality. This may be accomplished by forming a Community Emergency Response Team made up of local residents. This can be done in advance of a disaster so that the team can b