Question

Scenario # 2 Your facility is a large children’s hospital in north Texas. Until recently your facility was part of a larger health care facility run by the state. The facility is now corporately owned and operated. During this reorganization period a major fire occurred at a local elementary school. Over 100 injured children were sent to your facility for care. You encountered many problems: care was delayed and inappropriate for many children because of the nature of their injuries due to lack of parental consent for treatment and smoke inhalation and burns. Your task is to develop a disaster plan specifically to address the deficiencies and to reshape your public image following the fire at the elementary school.

Write a 1 page report: 1” margins, single-spaced, 12-point font, Word document format (.doc or .docx)

Describe your facility

Describe your staff

Explain any legal or ethical issues of the situation

Explain your management style/theory

Answer 1

The basic structure of disaster planning includes the four phases of comprehensive emergency management :

Mitigation

Preparedness

Response

Recovery

In a school, the disaster management criteria won't much available, since it is not very common. Therefore, it is very important to maintain facilitates and adequate staff service at any time.

* Rapid Visual assessment of the school facilities and recommendations for the correction if any change required

* Hazard identification in the school compound and recommendations to mitigate the effect

* Identification of accident prone area and recommendations to reduce the risk

* Preparation of self - glow school evacuation map-block-wise-floor wise

* Composition of the different team and task force to follow the compliance regarding Disaster management

* Inventory of resources available to school

* Mock drill and training schedules for the staff and students

* Certification of Disaster management expert

* Recommendation school health medical services including nurse and on call doctors

* Early warning system

The School Disaster Management Plan needs to be periodically evaluated and updated. The suggested period for plan updating is quarterly (every three months). It is the responsibility of the SDMC to ensure that the Plan is effective and is taken seriously by all concerned. This evaluation and updating of the SDMP will be monitored annually by the Education Authorities School Inspector.