NUR 3030 Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice
Community Preparedness: Disaster
A disaster is a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community’s or society’s ability to cope using its own resources. Though often caused by nature, disasters can have human origins. There are different types of disaster which affect people very differently. Natural: earthquake, sinkholes, volcanic eruption, floods, tsunami, blizzards, storms, heat waves etc.… Pandemics: Malaria, Tuberculosis, smallpox, Zika virus, cholera, influenza, yellow fever etc.…. Transportation: car, motorcycle, bicycle, plane, boat etc. .. Technological: computer, tablets, cellphones, internet etc.…
NUR 3030 Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice
NUR 3030 Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice
Community Preparedness: Disaster
A disaster is a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community’s or society’s ability to cope using its own resources. Though often caused by nature, disasters can have human origins. There are different types of disaster which affect people very differently. Natural: earthquake, sinkholes, volcanic eruption, floods, tsunami, blizzards, storms, heat waves etc.… Pandemics: Malaria, Tuberculosis, smallpox, Zika virus, cholera, influenza, yellow fever etc.…. Transportation: car, motorcycle, bicycle, plane, boat etc. .. Technological: computer, tablets, cellphones, internet etc.…
NUR 3030 Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice
. NUR 3030 Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice
NUR 3030 Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice
Community Preparedness: Disaster
A disaster is a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community’s or society’s ability to cope using its own resources. Though often caused by nature, disasters can have human origins. There are different types of disaster which affect people very differently. Natural: earthquake, sinkholes, volcanic eruption, floods, tsunami, blizzards, storms, heat waves etc.… Pandemics: Malaria, Tuberculosis, smallpox, Zika virus, cholera, influenza, yellow fever etc.…. Transportation: car, motorcycle, bicycle, plane, boat etc. .. Technological: computer, tablets, cellphones, internet etc.…




