1. Disaster Response – A Collaboration

2. ICN Competencies
Evaluates health needs and available resources in the area to meet basic needs of the population.
Collaborates with the disaster response team to reduce hazards and risks in the disaster-affected area.
Understands how to prioritize care and manage multiple situations.
Participates in preventive strategies such as mass immunization activities.
Collaborates with relief organizations to address basic needs of the community (e.g. shelter, food, water, health care).

3. ICN Competencies
Provides community-based education regarding health implications of the disaster
Adapts standards of nursing practice, as required, based on resources available and patient care needs.
Creates a safe patient care environment.
Implements principles of infection control to prevent the spread of disease.
Provides care in a manner that reflects cultural, social, spiritual and diverse background of the individual.

4. Public Health Competencies
Practices evidenced based Community Health Nursing
Health Assessments
Communicates effectively with individuals and groups
Adapts the delivery of PH nursing as required
Partners with key stakeholders and groups in the delivery of care

5. Competencies for Public Health Surge Events
Include Competencies related to:
Personal Preparedness
Understanding the disaster response plan
Rapid Needs Assessment
Triage and Communication
Recovery

6. Red Cross Health Services Competencies
Demonstrates
Critical Thinking
Ability to adapt care as required
Assessment Skills
Communication and Collaborative Skills
Illness and Disease Management and Prevention
Information/Health Care Technology Skills
Ethics

7. Vision
Minimum knowledge base, skills, and abilities regarding disaster response and public health emergency preparedness
Respond directly or provide indirect support (e.g., shift coverage for those deploying or critical data collection) during a disaster event or public health emergency
Promote preparedness amongst individuals in their care, families, and communities and within the organizations they represent and
Demonstrate a commitment to professional preparedness by participating in disaster planning, drills, and exercises within and beyond their specialty environment.

8. Red Cross Disaster Response Disaster Cycle Services
Service to Our Clients span the entire disaster cycle, are predictable and repeatable and are applied consistently across the country.
The community knows what to expect from us. Services and programs should be designed based first on the needs and expectations of clients and community consistent with the mission, and then on those of key stakeholders.
Be a facilitative leader across the disaster cycle: the Red Cross will align with government and work to enable the entire community to participate in all phases of the disaster cycle by shifting from being not only a provider of direct services but also a facilitative leader.

9. Services to Our Clients
A single integrated approach to building personal and community resilience encompasses services delivered through a single comprehensive disaster management process (whole cycle) which integrates and unifies programs and activities across the entire enterprise.
Our organization and culture continually innovate in response to client and constituent needs.
The speed and accessibility of our services meets the urgent needs of our clients.

10. Volunteers and Employees
Volunteers and Employees Design programs and work efforts around the features of a primarily volunteer workforce.
Systems/processes need to be designed to include a mechanism that ensures the employee and volunteer executing them are appropriately trained, skilled and supported by the organization.
Effective stewardship of time, talent and dollars.

11. Systems and Process
One operating model (a collection of tools and processes) that scales from a single, local event to multiple very large disasters.
Design a system that preserves and builds on existing local commitments, capabilities and relationships.
Ensure effective and efficient decision making closest to the client. Need to be able to measure impact.
Systems and technologies need to operate both during steady-state as well as major response periods.
Leverage current technology for efficient service delivery

12. Disaster Health Services Role
The Disaster Health Services program includes the following services:
Physical health-related interventions to assist individuals to prepare for, respond to, and recover from all disaster events.
Community public health related interventions to assist communities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from all disaster events.
Staff Shelters

13. Disaster Health Services Role
Address the unmet disaster-related health needs of impacted individuals, families, and communities.
Provide interventions that focus on assessment, care, support, comfort, and education of individuals and communities experiencing disaster-related health needs. (Both is the Shelter and in the Community)
Included in all services is the commitment to support individuals with disabilities and functional and access needs.
Support Staff Wellness

14. Public Health Public Health Nurses play an integral role in disaster
Disaster preparedness, response, and recovery is a critical component of public health nursing practice
Public health nurses will always be needed who understand the population-based nature of a disaster response and possess the knowledge and skills to respond in a timely and appropriate manner to any type of disaster.

15. Collaboration with Red Cross DHS
Role is to provide Health Services to Clients when Red Cross HS is scarce
Various Models Disaster Response
PHNs support shelters until ARC can staff
PHNs support shelter with ARC support
PHNs support shelters with EM support

16. How Red Cross can Support
Training
When public health nursing is supporting a shelter, DHS can assist with
obtaining medications and equipment for individual clients
Collaboration on client or shelter issues

17. Red Cross Training and Support
Provide Health Services Shelter Training
Collaboration with
In Blue Sky times -The Regional Health Services Leads in Blue Sky
During a Disaster - The Lead Disaster Health Services Nurse assigned to the disaster.

18. Contacts
Eastern North Carolina Donna Dorsey, RN,MS, FAAN Cell: Tim Duncan, RN, BSN, CCRN, CRT Cell:

19. Contacts Western North Carolina Region Jody Pinion, RN
Phone:
Ellen Bacon, RN
Phone:

20. THANK YOU