Disaster Preparedness: Meeting the Needs of Children

Blake, Nancy; Fry-Bowers, Eileen K.

doi:10.1016/j.pedhc.2017.12.003

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“…(2010) explained that Pediatric nursing care in hospital according to disaster management phases are: a) Mitigation: Nurses play important roles such as identify safe location or evacuation, design and planning for care unit like perinatal or pediatric unit; b) Preparedness: Nurses'roles in this phase are to be involved in personal development of disaster plan, identify option of caring by family, self preparedness by education and training to give high standard care as what victims need; c) Response: Nurses have roles to assess, triage, physical and mental monitoring to patient (victim) that still survive, give appropriate care, evacuation children, infant and their mothers, communicate and transfer or discharge patient appropriately; and d) Recovery: Nurses with hospital party to anticipate emergency medical care for routin care to children and their mothers in community, coordination and collaborate wi th health care in community about shelter, food supply; and mental care of children and their families. Blake and Bowers (2018) also said that considered to unique needs in pediatric population or adolescents such as physical, psychological, development and behavior require health practitioner include nurse to pay particular attention fo them in disaster and emergency preparedness planning. Unfortunately, a study in 2015 said that only 47% of all hospitals had disaster plan for pediatric population.…”

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Pedriatric Population in Disaster: How Should We Care for Them?

Siregar¹

2018

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Background: Disaster might cause many impacts for vulnerable people, especially children (pediatric population). Objective: This paper aims to explain how should nurse do in caring for children in disaster management. Method: This review is conducted by searching many literatures from Science direct, ProQuest, PubMed, and google scholar about children and care for pediatric population. Result: Management for children in disaster should consider to many important things, such as: physical condition, psychology, development and behavior. Health practitioner include nurse should care for and involve families, consider to physical and psychological need and protect children from exploitation or any harms to prevent Post Traumatic Distress Syndrome (PTSD) in disaster management. Nurse should pay more attention for children as a unique vulnerable population by considering all aspects of pediatric and involve their families in disaster management.

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Pedriatric Population in Disaster: How Should We Care for Them?

Siregar¹

2018

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“…To assist with these score determinations, the template includes an impact scoring key that assigns each category descriptions and examples across low, medium, and high impacts (Figure 3). Descriptions and examples were derived from commonly outlined pediatric needs during disasters (eg, need for pediatric-specific decontamination units during chemical and biological exposures), 1,2,4,5,12 existing characterizations of hazard impacts, 10,16 as well as descriptions within the PHRAT tool. 19 Although the scoring key is comprehensive, managers have wide latitude in assigning scores as each sub-category contains multiple components.…”

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“…However, despite the fact that children constitute a large proportion of the total population and are a uniquely at-risk group, they are often omitted from regional, adult hospital, and community hospital HVAs. 12 Nationally, only 47% of all hospitals (and 67% of high-volume hospitals) have disaster plans that include pediatric needs, with the majority of hospital disaster reports not considering pediatric-specific equipment, family reunification procedures, or pediatric standards during crises. [12][13][14] Less than 50% of hospitals routinely conduct disaster drills with pediatric patients, while only 32% of hospitals have plans incorporating pediatric surge capacity.…”

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Pediatric-Specific Hazard Vulnerability Analysis: The Missing Component of Regional and Hospital-Based Preparedness

Kappy

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Barda

et al. 2022

Disaster med. public health prep.

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Though children comprise a large percentage of the population and are uniquely vulnerable to disasters, pediatric considerations are often omitted from regional and hospital-based emergency preparedness. Children’s absence is particularly notable in hazard vulnerability analyses (HVAs), a commonly used tool that allows emergency managers to identify a hazard’s impact, probability of occurrence, and previous mitigation efforts. This paper introduces a new pediatric-specific HVA that provides emergency managers with a quantifiable means to determine how a hazard might affect children within a given region, taking into account existing preparedness most relevant to children’s safety. Impact and preparedness categories within the pediatric-specific HVA incorporate age-based equipment and care needs, long-term developmental and mental health consequences, and the hospital and community functions most necessary for supporting children during disasters. The HVA allows emergency managers to create a more comprehensive assessment of their pediatric populations and preparatory requirements.

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“…During recovery from a disaster, it is crucial that children and their families are provided a stable and safe environment. Key issues include postdisaster disease and injury prevention, nutrition, hydration, and identification and reunification of displaced children in all settings (Blake & Fry-Bowers, 2018). Pediatric-focused APRNs and other pediatric health care providers need to work within the established infrastructure of their community and with federal agencies to provide care for patients' long-term recovery needs.…”

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“…Although all pediatric health care providers may not be in the position to serve as first responders, every pediatric-focused APRN must have the necessary knowledge and skills to respond within his/her appropriate role when a disaster occurs. APRNs should be expected to know how to provide immediate physical and psychological care for those individuals involved, recognize their own limitations, know when and where to seek additional information and resources and understand the incident command system and its established processes (Blake & Fry-Bowers, 2018;Veenema et al, 2017).…”

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