Emergencies, Disasters, and Catastrophic Events: The Role of Rehabilitation Nurses in Preparedness, Response, and Recovery

Brown, Lisa M.; Hickling, Edward J.; Frahm, Kathryn A.

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“…In events such as these, rehabilitation nurses have valuable insights and perform pivotal activities in helping these patients and their communities effectively plan, respond, and recover from disasters (Brown, Hickling & Frahm, 2010). An essential initial step in this disaster planning process, however, is ensuring effective multifaceted and sustained education of patients, families, healthcare professionals, and community partners.…”

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Simulation for Team Training and Assessment: Case Studies of Online Training with Virtual Worlds

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Individuals in clinical training programs concerned with critical medical care must learn to manage clinical cases effectively as a member of a team. However, practice on live patients is often unpredictable and frequently repetitive. The widely substituted alternative for real patients-high-fidelity, manikin-based simulators (human patient simulator)-are expensive and require trainees to be in the same place at the same time, whereas online computer-based simulations, or virtual worlds, allow simultaneous participation from different locations. Here we present three virtual world studies for team training and assessment in acute-care medicine: (1) training emergency department (ED) teams to manage individual trauma cases; (2) prehospital and in-hospital disaster preparedness training; (3) training ED and hospital staff to manage mass casualties after chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive incidents. The research team created realistic virtual victims of trauma (6 cases), nerve toxin exposure (10 cases), and blast trauma (10 cases); the latter two groups were supported by rules-based, pathophysiologic models of asphyxia and hypovolemia. Evaluation of these virtual world simulation exercises shows that trainees find them to be adequately realistic to "suspend disbelief," and they quickly learn to use Internet voice communication and user interface to navigate their online character/avatar to work effectively in a critical care team. Our findings demonstrate that these virtual ED environments fulfill their promise of providing repeated practice opportunities in dispersed locations with uncommon, life-threatening trauma cases in a safe, reproducible, flexible setting.

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“…This is the person responsible for the communication with patients and for their education—an intermediary between medical facts and living people, full of emotions, often frustrated, and afraid of the next injury and pain, which periodically may get stronger. The ability of rehabilitation nurses to educate patients and communicate with them and their families translates into clinical efficiency of the whole rehabilitation process and the time of restoring complete physical efficiency (Brown, Hickling, & Frahm, ; Resnick et al., ).…”

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The Effectiveness of Massage in Therapy for Obturator Nerve Dysfunction as Complication of Hip Joint Alloplasty—Case Report

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“…A large-scale natural disaster, however, is a catastrophic event that is greater than any extraordinary emergency (L. M. Brown, Hickling, & Frahm, 2010;P. R. Brown et al, 2010), is often unforeseen, and will be affected by serious disruption to essential services such as electricity, water, and sanitation (Quarantelli, 1997).…”

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Exploring the Demands on Nurses Working in Health Care Facilities During a Large-Scale Natural Disaster

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Creative Commons CC-BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Article BackgroundNo country is truly exempt from a disaster. History has already provided examples of what can happen to a community in the event of a large-scale natural disaster. Factors such as population growth and urban development are increasing the risk faced by populations worldwide. Climate change will increase the incidence, duration, and severity of hazards of meteorological origin. The risk of disaster and thus the human consequences is increasing. When disaster strikes, health care organizations, and particularly their nursing and medical staff, are a critical element in any disaster response. They provide an essential service to any community, and hospitals and emergency departments (EDs) are often the first place of call for people affected by any type of emergency. The nursing workforce makes up a large part of any health care facility and organization, and is expected to be able to adapt and function competently. In addition, nurses may have to adapt at a moment's notice to events that occur with little or no warning, and they may be called upon to function effectively in challenging circumstances for periods of weeks or months and in contexts where their own community has been affected. The nature, extent, and speed of recovery in areas impacted by adverse events such as natural disasters is thus influenced by the adaptive capacity and resilience of nurses and the health care organizations they represent.The aim of the integrative review was to provide an evidence-based approach and re-conceptualization of ideas and recommendations for natural disaster preparation, preparedness, and competencies for nurses using an ecological 655587S GOXXX10.1177/2158244016655587SAGE OpenScrymgeour et al. AbstractNurses are pivotal to an effective societal response to a range of critical events, including disasters. This presents nurses with many significant and complex challenges that require them to function effectively under highly challenging and stressful circumstances and often for prolonged periods of time. The exponential growth in the number of disasters means that knowledge of disaster preparedness and how this knowledge can be implemented to facilitate the development of resilient and adaptive nurses and health care organizations represents an important adjunct to nurse education, policy development, and research considerations. Although this topic has and continues to attract attention in the literature, a lack of systematic understanding of the contingencies makes it difficult to clearly differentiate what is known and what gaps remain in this literature. Providing a sound footing for future research c...

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Emergencies, Disasters, and Catastrophic Events: The Role of Rehabilitation Nurses in Preparedness, Response, and Recovery

Cited by 15 publications

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Simulation for Team Training and Assessment: Case Studies of Online Training with Virtual Worlds

Simulation for Team Training and Assessment: Case Studies of Online Training with Virtual Worlds

The Effectiveness of Massage in Therapy for Obturator Nerve Dysfunction as Complication of Hip Joint Alloplasty—Case Report

Exploring the Demands on Nurses Working in Health Care Facilities During a Large-Scale Natural Disaster

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