Question: Internal Disaster Plans
- Click here to read about the standard operating guidelines for hospital disaster plan.
Review the elements required for a disaster plan addressing an internal disaster. Based on your review, create a 2- to 3-page report in a Microsoft Word document covering the hospital's (internal) disaster plan for how the staff reacts and carries out their duties in the event of an internal disaster.
- Your internal disaster plans should include:
- Size and type of your hospital (you decide this)
- Type of internal disaster (fire, explosion, biological etc.)
- Key medical and administrative staff to be contacted
- Central point for communication
- Particular service areas such as intensive care unit (ICU), labor and delivery unit etc.
- Other hospitals in your area and how you intend to coordinate with those facilities (you decide this)
- Implementation on internal transfers (moving patients from one area of the hospital to another)
- Implementation of external transfers
- Evacuation plan
- Support your responses with examples.
- Cite any sources in APA format.
- Submission Details
Review the report of World Health organization, Europe on Hospital emergency response checklist-An all-hazards tool for hospital administrators and emergency managers.