The pre-hospital and emergency department interface during disasters: workforce, education and other contemporary issues
1. THE PRE-HOSPITAL AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
INTERFACE DURING DISASTERS:
workforce, education and other contemporary issues
Jamie Ranse
Lecturer, University of Canberra
Chief Nurse, St John Ambulance Australia
Research Associate, Flinders University
Email: jamie.ranse@canberra.edu.au
Blog: www.jamieranse.com
Twitter: jamieranse
18. education
• Where do we teach disaster education
• Are we teaching the right stuff
• Who do we teach with?
• Mock scenarios
• Disaster content varied in all programs
• National framework and consistency
19. education
Elements of disaster content in courses:
Community and public health response
Pre-hospital response
Hospital response
Disaster triage
Sustainability
Disaster exercises
Incident systems
Nursing role in disaster
Communications Techniques
Management of the dead and dying
Disaster plans
Role of other organisations in disaster response
Mental health in relation to disasters
Populations with specific needs
Types of disasters
Examples of disasters
Health effects of disasters
24. workforce: willingness
• Varies depending on culture
• Perceived responsibilities to profession
• Out-of-work responsibilities
• Personal beliefs and confidence, and
• Availability of social and organisational support
27. workforce: responding to disasters
• Who do we send
• What is the process
• Cross boarder issues
• Civilian corps
• Individual deployments
• Disaster tourism
28. THE PRE-HOSPITAL AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
INTERFACE DURING DISASTERS:
workforce, education and other contemporary issues
Jamie Ranse
Lecturer, University of Canberra
Chief Nurse, St John Ambulance Australia
Research Associate, Flinders University
Email: jamie.ranse@canberra.edu.au
Blog: www.jamieranse.com
Twitter: jamieranse
Editor's Notes
Identify other facilities / institutions that can ‘take’ patients
University
Off-site processing of minor casualties
Tell everyone to go home!
1=completely unprepared to attend
2=somewhat unprepared to attend
3=neither prepared nor unprepared to attend
4=somewhat prepared to attend
5=completely prepared to attend.
Q5. Is there anything that would need to occur to improve your willingness to attend work when there is a health-disaster?
There were 271 responses (61%) to ‘yes’ and 172 (38%) to ‘no’. The detail of improvements were
as follows.