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.