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Study highlights need to integrate critical care-specific needs into disaster response planning
Natural disasters, terrorism attacks, mass shootings and the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the importance of disaster response planning throughout the healthcare system.
Disaster drills often focus on the immediate aftermath of an incident, such as managing the initial triage and patient surge in the emergency department and testing the hospital incident command system. However, a disaster also may require critical care capacity to expand in a rapid and sustained fashion. Mass Casualties and Disaster Implications for the Critical Care Team details various considerations to integrate critical care-specific needs into disaster response planning, including the ability to expand capacity for intensive care unit (ICU) beds, the number of trained personnel, supplies and equipment. The article is published in
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Published February 01, 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C., February 1, 2021 – The
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the
Commission on Nurse Certification (CNC) are pleased to announce the latest winners of the annual Clinical Nurse Leader
SM (CNL) Awards, which recognize exceptional CNLs in academia and practice. Honorees include Latasha Kast, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNL from the UPMC Passavant, selected for the CNL Vanguard Award for exemplary practice as a CNL, and Rosemary Hoffmann, PhD, RN, CNL from the University of Pittsburgh, who will receive the CNL Educator Award. Both awards will be presented during the opening session of the virtual
CNL Summit planned for February 25-27, 2021.