Rehabilitation psychology
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Rehabilitation psychology · Aug 2010
Emergency preparedness as a continuous improvement cycle: perspectives from a postacute rehabilitation facility.
To describe the iterative process of emergency planning and preparedness: risk assessment, planning, rehearsal, implementation, and refinement. ⋯ Facilities providing residential services to persons with neurological injury are potentially vulnerable to a number of natural and manmade disasters. Careful planning, preparation, and practice are necessary to ensure safe evacuation of persons served and facility personnel in response to an emergency. Experiences (i.e., "lessons learned") from each evacuation, subsequent changes to emergency preparedness plans, and recommendations for emergency preparedness beyond a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, are presented.