Question

1. How could nursing homes prepare better for disasters?

2. What role does the NH administrator have in preparing for disasters?

3. How can disasters impact other LTC settings, like assisted livings?

Answer 1

Answer: Disaster is a kind of state of emergency, natural disasters such as flood, hurricanes etc.cause many damages to the living being as well as they lead people into trauma as they lost their loved ones, house etc. So preparation for disaster should be done to tackle any kind of worst situation. Nursing homes can be prepared better for disasters by many ways such as by increasing the involvement of nursing homes in emergency planning and response efforts. It can be achieved by securing nursing homes, that can be easily accessible to the resources necessary to sustain elders, such as transportation and electric power. All the essential resources provided to hospitals in emergencies and there should be stock aviability. Empowering the nursing homes to prepare responses to disasters.

The role of Nursing administration is to look after the resources and the proper availability of the product and essential thing should be checked. Nurse administrators should look after the policy planning that how the work should be implemented in the disaster case. Managing the staff and assigning there duties. They also cross-check the financial resource and its management and also take the responsibilities of coordinating and supervising the delivery of health care.

The long-term care facilities is important as people who faced the natural disaster they suffer from the mental trauma, so the counseling is needed whereas temporary shelters should be provided. These people need proper care and treatment especially the elderly people and children. Monitoring the health of those affected people and providing them with better assessment and care.