Disaster Plans

Introduction

The Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) aims to promptly mobilize the provision of medical supplies and pharmaceuticals to places affected by disasters or emergencies (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services- HHS, 2022). The SNS team prepares and responds to emergencies and ensures the required assets are available during a disaster. This paper will discuss the items from the SNS that a community hospital may need in the event of a disaster and the concerns that may arise depending on this facility. It will also discuss the problems of using an old disaster plan.

Items Required

The SNS contains CHEMPACKS, mechanical ventilators, vaccines, medications, and personal protective equipment (Binkley & Kemp, 2022). During a disaster, a community hospital would require a mechanical ventilator for patients with severe respiratory illnesses, especially in an emergency or disaster such as COVID-19. CHEMPACKS refers to nerve agent antidotes used for rapid response in the phase of a disaster, such as chemical incidents (Binkley & Kemp, 2022). Responders and victims and personal protective equipment during emergencies like respiratory disasters. Other items like vaccines and medications would also be used to respond to the disaster victims to avoid escalation of damage or spread of the virus.

Concerns about Relying on SNS

Relying on SNS may lead to responders lacking emotional and human connection with the victims of a disaster, making recovery from trauma difficult. Additionally, since the human touch is limited by the equipment used to respond in the event of a catastrophe, thoughtfulness and understanding of a scenario are also diminished, which may lead to miscalculation of an emergency or need.

Problems

The problem that may arise from a ten-year-old disaster plan is that the local hospitals open years ago may have undergone transition and may not meet the community needs in the modern situation. Besides, the structural dynamics of these hospitals may have changed over time, and liaisons are made difficult because of these changes. In other words, the contexts may have changed over time. For instance, the Monkeypox infection may have been endemic to other parts of the world, but ten years later, it may have spread to the community that was not hit initially. The neighbouring hospitals may not have understood the transmission dynamics of Monkeypox ten years back in the disaster plan; therefore, using this plan for the new case scenario may increase human transmission through droplets or body fluids (Thakur et al., 2022).

Conclusion

In conclusion, since the SNS is instrumental in providing supplement medical and infrastructure needed by community hospitals in a disaster, this facility must be accompanied by human resources to make them more effective. Besides, the stress response mechanisms would include the human feeling when the human feels the two are merged.

References

Binkley, J. M., & Kemp, K. M. (2022). Mobilization of Resources and Emergency Response on the National Scale. Surgical Clinics, 102(1), 169-180.

Thakur, V., Thakur, P., Srivastava, S., & Kumar, P. (2022). Monkeypox virus (MPX) in humans a concern: Trespassing the global boundaries–Correspondence. International Journal of Surgery (London, England), 104, 106703.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services- HHS (2022). Public Health Emergency: Strategic National Stockpile. https://www.phe.gov/about/sns/Pages/default.aspx

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Disaster Plans

The SNS is a pivotal tool in the event of a disaster.

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research SNS. Based on your understanding, respond to the following:

List and explain the types of items a community hospital will require and seek from the SNS in the event of a disaster.
List and explain at least two concerns you may have when forced to rely on this facility.
During the creation of disaster plans, it is common and essential that neighbouring hospitals work together. List and explain some problems that may arise from a ten-year disaster plan involving the local community hospitals when it was initially designed.
Make sure that you include an introduction and conclusion to your post.

Resources:
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2016). Strategic National Stockpile. CDC.
Retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/phpr/stockpile/

Use your course and textbook readings and the South University Online Library to support your work. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Your initial posting should be addressed at 150-300 words. Submit your document to this Discussion Area by the due date assigned. Be sure to cite your sources using APA format.

Collaboration and Leadership

Hello and welcome to this collaboration and leadership reflection presentation. In this video, we will discuss healthcare collaborations and the role of nurses in collaborative approaches. Collaborative paradigms in healthcare have been lauded for their superiority in ensuring optimal care outcomes and improved patient experiences. Nurses maintain significance in interdisciplinary healthcare teams as their input and leadership help improve patient experiences and optimize clinical outcomes.

During my clinical rotation at Southwest Community Hospital, I was part of the team that piloted an outreach program on diabetes prevention. The program drew all stakeholders within the healthcare environment and the community. Nurses’ roles during the program included screening for diabetes, following up on known diabetics, and educating community members on preventive measures for diabetes. The program succeeded in several ways: first, the mobilization was excellent, and the turnout was also high. Second, all healthcare professionals within the hospital were also in attendance. Third, the outreach program also managed to achieve most of its goals. However, there were several delays in the flow of information. Notably, the chain of command was not adequately established during the program. There was no one to report to; sometimes, healthcare professionals involved in the program acted independently.

Nonetheless, the nursing team was proactive during the process. Nurses involved in the program were able to utilize their reflective practice skills to bridge the gap in communication between the stakeholders involved and ensure that the team remained on course. Reflective nursing practice allows them to use their strengths to guide an in-process activity. In this exercise, nurses bridged the apparent communication gap within the healthcare team.

Poor collaborations can be detrimental to human resources and financial management. Poor collaboration results in poor strategy execution, time wastage, disengagement of staff, and reduced team cohesion and morale. According to Szierbowski-Seibel et al. (writing in 2019), inefficiencies in human resource management have been implicated in reduced team cohesiveness and disengagement, which are a consequence of poor collaborations. In addition, financial resource management is also impacted when organizational strategies are not executed accordingly and time is wasted during organizational operationalization. Gilles et al. (writing in 2020) demonstrate that poor collaboration impedes an organization’s financial success as it reduces operational efficiencies. All these result from poor collaboration between stakeholders within the organization.

Accordingly, establishing collaborative leadership is pivotal in healthcare. Buljac-Samardzic et al. (writing in 2020) state that the best practice leadership strategies that improve collaboration include creating transparency in decision-making, building trust within the organization, adopting a shared purpose for all stakeholders, effective communication, and establishing a framework for conflict resolution. Healthcare leadership plays a role in ensuring collaborative approaches to care processes. In 2022, the authors McLaney, Morassaei, Hughes, Davies, Campbell, & Di Prospero pointed out that leaders are responsible for advancing competencies in healthcare and fostering a collaborative approach that ensures the attainment of the desired clinical outcomes. Employing the leadership best practices outlined may enable them to achieve this goal.

Further, interprofessional collaborative strategies foster teamwork and synergize healthcare processes. According to Buljac-Samardzic et al. (writing in 2020), the best interdisciplinary collaborative strategies include encouraging open communication, sharing knowledge and insights on clinical challenges, fostering a supportive team climate, respect, role definition, and mutual trust. Also, Dhawan (writing in 2016) notes that collaborative paradigms maintain superiority because of their diverse care approach and the ability to utilize vast and varying resources in care provision. It is, therefore, important that healthcare systems adopt a collaborative approach to care provision.

As I conclude, it is essential to note that healthcare collaborations maintain significance in the healthcare landscape. As healthcare leaders and crucial components of the healthcare provision, nurses should embrace the collaborative paradigm in healthcare. They should also employ the best leadership and collaborative strategies that foster good interprofessional collaborations. As demonstrated above, poor collaboration is detrimental to human and financial resource management and undesirable in healthcare.

Thank you for watching.

References

Buljac-Samardzic, M., Doekhie, K., & van Wijngaarden, J. (2020). Interventions to improve team effectiveness within health care: a systematic review of the past decade. Human Resources for Health, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-019-0411-3

Dhawan, A. (2016). Collaborative Paradigm of Preventive, Personalized, and Precision Medicine with Point-of-Care Technologies. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 4, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1109/jtehm.2016.2635126

Gilles, I., Filliettaz, S., Berchtold, P., & Peytremann-Bridevaux, I. (2020). Financial Barriers Decrease Benefits of Interprofessional Collaboration within Integrated Care Programs: Results of a Nationwide Survey. International Journal of Integrated Care, 20(1), 10. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.4649

McLaney, E., Morassaei, S., Hughes, L., Davies, R., Campbell, M., & Di Prospero, L. (2022). A framework for interprofessional collaboration in a hospital setting: Advancing team competencies and behaviors. Healthcare Management Forum, 35(2), 112-117. https://doi.org/10.1177/08404704211063584

Szierbowski-Seibel, K., Wach, B., & Kabst, R. (2019). The Collaboration of Human Resource Management and Line Management–An International Comparison. Organization Management Journal, 16(4), 262-277. https://doi.org/10.1080/15416518.2019.1679076

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Collaboration and Leadership

Assessment 1: Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video
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ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS
For this assessment, you will create a 5-10 minute video reflection on an interprofessional collaboration experience and a brief discussion of an interprofessional collaboration scenario and how it could have been better approached.