ALLMedicine™ Disaster Preparedness Center

Feb 12th, 2021 - Rural communities are generally more vulnerable to natural hazards when compared to urban communities. Moreover, rural communities are diverse and unique in their place, population, agricultural production and culture, which make it challenging fo...

Feb 5th, 2021 - (1) Background: The purpose of this study was to validate a Korean version of the disaster preparedness evaluation tool (DPET-K) for nurses and to verify its validity and reliability for use in community healthcare centers and hospitals in South K...

Jan 22nd, 2021 - With the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, healthcare systems across the world have been pushed to the brink. The approach of traditional healthcare systems to disaster preparedness and prevention has demonstrated intrinsic problems, such as failure to d...

Jan 17th, 2021 - Nurse preparedness and prompt response are essential to save lives and reduce the consequences of disasters and emerging pandemics. This paper aimed to synthesize the available evidence that demonstrates the adequacy on disaster preparedness among...

Jan 12th, 2021 - Background: This year has seen the emergence of two major crises, a significant increase in the frequency and severity of hurricanes and the COVID-19 pandemic. However, little is known as to how each of these two events have impacted the other. A ...

Jan 31st, 2019 - The American Academy of Nursing recognizes the significant impact of natural disasters on older adults. Unfortunately, despite decades of planning, deficiencies continue to exist in disaster preparedness for this population.

Dec 31st, 2018 - The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) acknowledges the central role of pediatric nurse practitioners (PNPs) and their fellow pediatric-focused advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) in disaster preparedness to pro.

Nov 30th, 2017 - Large-scale catastrophic events and infectious disease outbreaks highlight the need for disaster planning at all community levels. Features unique to the obstetric population (including antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum and neonatal care) warran.

Nov 30th, 2017 - This expert guidance document was developed as a resource to provide healthcare epidemiologists working in acute-care hospitals with a high-level overview of incident management for infectious diseases outbreaks and to prepare them to work within.

Oct 20th, 2015 - Infants, children, adolescents, and young adults have unique physical, mental, behavioral, developmental, communication, therapeutic, and social needs that must be addressed and met in all aspects of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. ...

Feb 12th, 2021 - Rural communities are generally more vulnerable to natural hazards when compared to urban communities. Moreover, rural communities are diverse and unique in their place, population, agricultural production and culture, which make it challenging fo...

Feb 5th, 2021 - (1) Background: The purpose of this study was to validate a Korean version of the disaster preparedness evaluation tool (DPET-K) for nurses and to verify its validity and reliability for use in community healthcare centers and hospitals in South K...

Jan 22nd, 2021 - With the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, healthcare systems across the world have been pushed to the brink. The approach of traditional healthcare systems to disaster preparedness and prevention has demonstrated intrinsic problems, such as failure to d...

Jan 17th, 2021 - Nurse preparedness and prompt response are essential to save lives and reduce the consequences of disasters and emerging pandemics. This paper aimed to synthesize the available evidence that demonstrates the adequacy on disaster preparedness among...

Jan 12th, 2021 - Background: This year has seen the emergence of two major crises, a significant increase in the frequency and severity of hurricanes and the COVID-19 pandemic. However, little is known as to how each of these two events have impacted the other. A ...

Apr 28th, 2020 - (Reuters Health) - Less than half of U.S. households have an "action plan" to meet up and communicate in the event of a disaster, and preparedness varies based on socioeconomic characteristics, a new study suggests. The cross-sectional study looke...

May 27th, 2018 - The vast majority of emergency medicine physicians face shortages of key medications, and doubt whether their organizations are "fully prepared" for a disaster, polling data showed. The poll's findings were released by the American College of Emer...

Feb 15th, 2018 - In the aftermath of Wednesday's mass shooting at a Florida high school, the emergency medicine community is once again thinking about how to improve disaster preparedness as it waits for more details to be made available on how peers responded to ...

Jan 23rd, 2018 - As the population ages and severe weather incidents become more frequent and deadly, the question remains: are older adults living independently prepared to deal with natural disaster? According to a new study from RAND Corporation, they aren't. A...

Nov 21st, 2017 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For catastrophic events and infectious disease outbreaks, obstetricians and facilities providing maternity care need disaster preparedness plans, according to an American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG...