For our final
week of this blog I would like to share with you the final components to a good
disaster preparedness. When you are
subjected to an emergency you may experience people who are wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) or if you are a healthcare
worker you may have to don this equipment to provide care and keep yourself
safe.
The unpleasant part of a disaster is the triage process. No one wants to be in
the unpleasant position of determining who gets care and who is left until
later. When we entered into the job of
healthcare worker we entered with the realization that we would care for
individuals and it is extremely hard to leave a person when they need us the most. But, many man hours would be needed to care
for that one individual and during an emergency man hours are hard to come
by. We must do the most care for the greatest amount of people.
So, in parting I would like to share the
following with you:
Visit the CDC at http://emergency.cdc.gov/preparedness/ and learn what you can do to prepare for
an emergency. Think now, Prepare
yourselves, and Act accordingly in an emergency and you might just save the
lives of yourself and family members.
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