NURS FPX 6618 Assessment 3 Disaster Plan With Guidelines for Implementation NURS-FPX 6618 Leadership in Care Coordination

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Care Coordination Needs

Disastrous situations can cause many challenges that can be overcome with proper care coordination planning. The challenges in disaster events are unmet healthcare needs, insufficient healthcare equipment, accessibility to healthcare, imbalance in workload, burnout, lack of resources, and shortage of healthcare providers (Yusefi et al., 2022). An example could be the recent pandemic of coronavirus where several countries faced challenges as they were not prepared (Yusefi et al., 2022).

The medical stores and hospitals were flooded as many people were unaware of the coronavirus. There was a catastrophic situation when millions of people died worldwide from this disease due to several challenges. If there had been a proper care coordination plan for disaster management like this, several lives could have been saved, and the whole situation would have been prevented from being chaotic. Some requirements that can be met during such a situation of epidemic or pandemic have an evacuation plan in place, making sure there are no issues with the equipment or systems, educating the community on the disease to prevent false alarms, gathering all the necessary resources, and keeping the caregivers ready and trained to work in such situations.

Elements of a Disaster Preparedness Project Plan

Any disaster can result in a chaotic situation that may cause communication, coordination, and collaboration challenges. Several needs of the people can go unmet, causing health complications and even fatalities. The critical elements of a disaster preparedness plan would be to foster efficient collaboration and communication. Enhanced communication and collaboration would help organizations recognize the crisis to highlight the problem’s urgency (Bly et al., 2021). This can help the response become more effective and flexible.

NURS FPX 6618 Assessment 3 Disaster Plan With Guidelines for Implementation

It can also help spread awareness regarding diseases such as coronavirus so that families can take precautionary measures. With a smooth flow of information, resources can be allocated, and progress can be shared and analyzed to make improvements. Tools must be implemented for risk assessment and sensitivity testing (Bly et al., 2021). Financial aid can be provided to individuals in need, and there must be appropriate infrastructure for all the systems to address the crisis.

Personnel & Material Resources in Emergencies

The necessary personnel and material resources needed in emergencies are:

• Emergency shelters
• Transportation services like ambulances and firefighter vehicles.
• Hygiene-related resources
• Ventilators
• Power system
• Oxygen sources
• Medications
• Water and food
• Communication services like telephone or cell phones

All healthcare providers must collaborate to utilize these resources effectively. The disaster response team would need all these supplies to help the ones affected (Khan et al., 2018). The assumption made during this analysis was that all these resources would be readily available for the providers to deliver care. 

Standards & Best Practice

Ethics of patient confidentiality must be maintained when dealing with patients to minimize patient security risks. Patient information can be sensitive and put the patients in vulnerable positions if security is breached. For this, policies like HIPAA can be followed that only lets authorized users to access patient information and has a framework for ensuring patient safety (Bassan, 2020).

Healthcare providers must know how to provide ethically and culturally best care. Ethical frameworks like the crisis standards of care (CSCs) can be followed (Leider et al., 2017).  These standards ensure that all the practices being carried out must be transparent and consistent. Fair treatment should be provided to prevent any disparities among the patients. There can be challenges in following standards and ensuring a complete set of ethical practices. However, CSCs ensure accountability which allows protection and adherence to the standards.

Interagency & Inter-professional Relationships

Coordinated care requires effective collaboration not only among the professionals but also with the patients to provide a continuous communication system. Patients suffering from diseases of a pandemic or any other disaster can have better satisfaction and healthcare outcomes with coordinated care. During an emergency, practitioners from different fields can collaborate to meet public health needs and bridge the knowledge gaps (Mawardi et al., 2020). With co