Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3109503 | Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America | 2008 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
As a volunteer nurse deployed to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the author observed the need for honest and informative leadership, for volunteer flexibility and an “I'll-do-anything” mind-set, and for more advanced disaster training. This article describes the author's experiences and highlights how she learned those lessons. She advocates learning from the experiences of responders to recent national and international relief efforts to ensure the organizational and personal preparedness needed to deal with the complex ethical, moral, legal, and medical issues during a disaster.
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Authors
Sandra L. RN, MSN, APRN-BC,