The Nursing clinics of North America
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Nurs. Clin. North Am. · Sep 2005
ReviewThe role of public health nursing in emergency preparedness and response.
Public health services are vital to homeland security and defense, and nurses make up the majority of public health care workers. This article identifies issues in preparing for bioterrorism and describes the role of public health nurses in bioterrorism preparedness.
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Nurses need a comprehensive knowledge of doctrine, laws, regulations,programs, and processes that build the operational framework for health care preparedness. Key components of this knowledge base reside in the areas of: evolution of homeland security: laws and mandates affecting health care and compliance and regulatory issues for health care organizations. This article addresses primary components in both of these areas, after first assessing the status of nursing's involvement (in homeland security), as portrayed in the professional literature.
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Nurs. Clin. North Am. · Sep 2005
ReviewPractical considerations for providing pediatric care in a mass casualty incident.
Children have unique physiologic and developmental characteristics that need to be considered. Plans for pediatric care during mass casualty incidents (MCIs) need to be developed. This article highlights challenges in providing care to children after MCIs and provides considerations for providing pediatric care.