Analysis of St. John's Hospital Disaster Management Plan: A Capstone

This case study analyzes St. John's Hospital's disaster management plan, focusing on its policies for internal and external disasters, communication strategies, and lines of authority. The critique suggests improvements such as enhancing telecommunication capabilities in rural areas, emphasizing comprehensive training for staff, and ensuring the protection of both staff and patients. It contrasts the hospital's approach with long-term care plans, highlighting the need for data management and improved communication lines for effective disaster response. The study concludes by advocating for continuous adjustments and improvements to strengthen the hospital's disaster preparedness.

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The St. John’s Disaster Plan
The impact of disaster is normally ambiguous it creates a big loss and even a lot of
suffering to people. St John Hospital Disaster management Plan have great way in solving a
problem, they provide policy for both external and internal disaster situation that may affect
hospital staff, patients and the community and this makes them to be strong since they find it
possible to remedy the situation. According to St John hospital, there are several hazards they
include internal disaster like fire explosion, we have floods, tornados and also external disasters
involving small casualties.
Normally even if the system is very strong, some adjustment and improvement should be
made in order to close the loopholes that will allow to the increase of the problem and even
endangers more. In rural areas there should be an increase in telecommunication capabilities this
makes it easier to reach and individual with a problem.
Training, this is one of the best way of improving away preventing this disaster that even
kills our children at younger age sometimes at bath by having good couching to our nurses on the
way to handle patient and even when a tragedy has occurred (Hogan & Burstein, 2012). And in
training one should know their duty and how they can protect themselves and even the sick
people. The organization should also include protection of the members and even the staff,
through protection one get motivated and even have a good attitude and trust in the organization
since there is assurance that he or she will get help.
In consideration for the people in rural areas a lot of facilities need to be implemented
things such as transport facilities, communication lines and even availability and accountability
the people in charge.

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Long time care plan protect the right of individual and the good thing of it is that it is
able to solve complains from the people by adopting disaster preparedness and it promote access
to services for resident even before the outbreak and even after.
They don’t respond first to emergency and it is said they hardly support the operation of
air conditioning and even facilities may not be identified as being essential and even not in
capability of supporting refrigeration. They also make elderly people to live longer and birth rate
to go down.
All approaches in managing disaster work well since they respond to resident need in
appropriate is only that long term takes time(Fung & Lai, 2015). When comparing between long
term and hospital some choose either one of the two, in some countries it is seen that some older
people spend more money in doing insurance cove having in mind that the government will take
care of them but it does not work that way. As with hospital they work quickly with emergency.
We nowadays know that we are in world of technology and the panel should have data
management, in that they are able to track the movement of people in rural and even in urban
areas during disaster or emergency. Communication matters, planning for good communication
line there should be installation of computers and other communication gadgets.

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References
Hogan, D. E., & Burstein, J. (2012). Disaster medicine. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Journal
of health sciences and nursing, 56(4), 100-108.
Fung, O. W., Loke, A. Y., & Lai, C. K. (2015). Disaster preparedness among Hong Kong
nurses. Journal of advanced nursing, 62(6), 698-703.