healthcare disaster planning
read about the standard operating guidelines for hospital disaster plan.
Review the elements required for a disaster plan addressing an internal disaster. Based on your review, create a 2- to 3-page report in a Microsoft Word document covering the hospital’s (internal) disaster plan for how the staff reacts and carries out their duties in the event of an internal disaster.
Your internal disaster plans should include:
- Introduction
- Size and type of your hospital (you decide this)
- Type of internal disaster (fire, explosion, biological etc.)
- Key medical and administrative staff to be contacted
- Central point for communication
- Particular service areas such as intensive care unit (ICU), labor and delivery unit etc.
- Other hospitals in your area and how you intend to coordinate with those facilities (you decide this)
- Implementation on internal transfers (moving patients from one area of the hospital to another)
- Implementation of external transfers
- Evacuation plan
- Conclusion
*should be addressed in 2 to 4 pgs apa format
The attached is required to aid in this assignment
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Introduction
Hospitals are essential in handling the disasters that may assail their local communities. An internal disaster plan provides direction for the medical facility. The current internal disaster plan is designed to direct the activities of all the parties who will be essential in ensuring that the disaster is overcome.
Size and type of your hospital
The medical facility focuses on the provision of specialized services for patients who are suffering from heart conditions (Brandeau et al., 2004).The hospital is a community medical facility aiming to cater for the well being of the local populace. The medical facility has a total of 150 beds which are available for patients……………….words 824