Create a hospital response plan that effectively addresses a healthcare facility’s actions in response to a communicable disease outbreak of your choosing.

Create a hospital response plan that effectively addresses a healthcare facility’s actions in response to a communicable disease outbreak of your choosing.

Scenario:

You are the infection control nurse of a 100-bed inpatient healthcare facility. With the increasing potential for a communicable disease exposure in your facility, the chief clinical officer has tasked you with the creation of a hospital response plan for a communicable disease outbreak in your healthcare facility.

Instructions:

Create a hospital response plan that effectively addresses a healthcare facility’s actions in response to a communicable disease outbreak of your choosing. The response plan should:

Identify a communicable disease and explain why this particular disease necessitates a response plan.

Be supported by current evidence.

Include guidance on the following:

Logistics: adequate physical resources and services required

Triage: appropriate protocols and location

Communication: timely and effective contact internal and external of the facility regarding a suspected or confirmed outbreak

Infection control: sufficient measures to protect hospital employees, patients, and the public

Human resources: efficient management of human capital in response to a suspected or confirmed outbreak

Responsibilities of various hospital departments: effective interventions by primary and ancillary departments in response to a suspected or confirmed outbreak

Reflect the nurse’s ability to:

Assess and identify the disease outbreak

Support containment and treatment of the disease

Facilitate timely communication regarding the outbreak

Answer preview Create a hospital response plan that effectively addresses a healthcare facility’s actions in response to a communicable disease outbreak of your choosing.

Create a hospital response plan that effectively addresses a healthcare facility's actions in response to a communicable disease outbreak

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