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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Contributing Authors and Reviewers | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Disasters: A Basic Overview | |
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| Why Nurses Need to Be Prepared | |
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| Natural and Man-Made Disasters | |
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| Terrorism | |
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| Conventional Terrorist Weapons | |
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| Non-Conventional Terrorist Weapons | |
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| Stages of Disaster Response | |
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| Disaster Management Agencies and Organizations | |
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| Trauma | |
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| Planning for Disasters | |
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| Disaster Planning-So What? | |
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| Five Stages of Disasters | |
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| Predisaster Planning | |
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| Disaster Planning: Preparation | |
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| Essentials and Principles of Disaster Planning | |
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| Organization and Implementation of the Disaster Response | |
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| Reporting and Notification | |
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| Authority During a Disaster | |
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| Crisis and Consequence Management | |
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| Interagency Coordination | |
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| Casualty Management | |
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| Patient Tracking | |
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| External Support | |
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| Exercises and Drills | |
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| Media Relations | |
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| Promoting Mental Health: Predisaster and Postdisaster | |
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| Levels of Victims | |
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| Frameworks for Understanding Responses to Disasters | |
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| Assessment and Intervention with Survivors | |
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| Adverse Mental Health Outcomes: Assessment and Intervention | |
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| Psychological Interventions | |
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| Mental Health Vulnerability of the Nurse as Disaster Worker | |
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| Preparing Nursing Administrators, Faculty, and Students for Disasters | |
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| Administrators | |
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| Schools of Nursing: Administration, Faculty, Staff and Students | |
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| Student Nurse Volunteers in the American Red Cross | |
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| St. Louis Region Metropolitan Medical Response System | |
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| Preparing Staff and Inactive Registered Nurses to Manage Casualties | |
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| Governmental Influence and Responsibility | |
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| Triage | |
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| Decontamination | |
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| Management of Casualties | |
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| Casualty Assessment | |
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| Logistics | |
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| Perspectives of a U.S. Emergency Room Nurse | |
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| Perspectives of an Israeli Nurse | |
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| Management and Preparation for Battlefield Casualties | |
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| Innovations in Nursing Care from the Battlefield | |
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| Unique Features of Military Nursing | |
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| Similarities in Management of Civilian and Battlefield Casualties | |
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| Differences in Management of Civilian and Battlefield Casualties | |
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| Military/Civilian Interaction and Role of the Military with the Civilians in a Disaster | |
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| Preparing Community Health Nurses and Nurses in Ambulatory Health Centers | |
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| Educational Settings | |
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| Business Environments | |
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| High-Rise Buildings | |
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| Persons with Physical or Mental Challenges | |
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| Incarcerated Individuals | |
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| Parish Nurses | |
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| Considerations for Vulnerable Populations | |
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| Perinatal and Neonatal Populations | |
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| Older Persons | |
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| Persons with Mobility and Sensory Deficits | |
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| Persons Who Are Cognitive or Language-Processing Delayed | |
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| Non-English Speaking Population | |
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| Persons Who Are Immunocompromised | |
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| Preparing Nurses to Plan and Care for Children During Disaster Situations | |
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| Pediatric Physiological Differences Contributing to Illness and Injury Response | |
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| Factors Influencing the Child's Response to Illness and Disaster | |
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| Caring for Children During Disaster Situations | |
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| Influences on the Child's Response to Disaster | |
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| Caring for Children During Disaster Situations | |
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| Optimizing Environments for Healthy Children | |
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| The Role of the Infection Control Nurse in Disaster Preparedness | |
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| Emergency Management Model | |
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| Disaster as the Personal Experience | |
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| Israel: Interview with L. | |
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| Teacher, Nurse, and Clergy Interviews | |
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| Advice from Bereaved Parents | |
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| The Global Role of a Disaster Nurse | |
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| Deployment | |
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| Agencies and Acronyms | |
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| Test Your Knowledge Answers | |
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| Decontamination Forms and Volunteer Log | |
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| Index | |