As an emergency medicine physician and director of emergency management, I have taken part in disaster and humanitarian responses in Sri Lanka after the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, in Haiti ...

The University of Wyoming’s Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing recently implemented comprehensive disaster management leadership training, preparing 39 undergraduate nursing students to respond ...

One of the main concerns in a nursing home when it comes to disaster planning is getting the people who live in the facility to safety. This presents a unique challenge because the residents cannot ...

Kentucky has a state regulation requiring nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have written plans and procedures to meet all potential emergencies and disasters, but how each organization ...

GAPNA discusses disaster response in long-term care settings and home-based primary care. Every month, the leadership team at the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (GAPNA) highlights ...

Intervention to address disasters has evolved through time into a complex policy subsystem, and disaster policy is implemented through a set of functions known as emergency management and response.