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Disaster Recovery Plan
Rosa Polanco
Capella University
NURS-FPX4060
Professor Lois Konzelman
February 2022

Introduction
Good morning, everyone! My name is Rosa Polanco. I would like to welcome you all to
this presentation on disaster planning. As you all know, disasters are unexpected and can lead to
chaos putting patient safety at risk. Disasters are defined as an event that causes numerous
casualties in which the demands for patients’ medical needs exceed (Ghanbari et al., 2019). The
Villa Health community experienced a train explosion causing the life of 6 residents and many
injured people. Our community was not prepared for this type of event. The hospital didn’t have
an appropriate plan. Organizations responding to the event weren’t communicating with each
other adding more to the chaos. It is time to design a plan that will help us navigate through the
next inevitable disaster.
Objectives
This plan will discuss the health risks and needs of the community, identify strategies to
improve interprofessional collaborations and communication, explain the impact health and
government policies have in achieving desired outcomes, and explain how a plan helps lessen
health disparities and improve access to community services.
Healthy People
Healthy People provides science-based objectives for improving the health of all
Americans (HP,2020). The MAP-IT model can help design and evaluate the effectiveness of
interventions such as disaster recovery. The model consists of mobilizing collaborative partners,
assessing community needs, planning to lessen health disparities, implementing the plan to reach
Healthy People objectives, and tracking your community’s progress. To maintain safety this plan
will be guided by the MAP-IT framework from Healthy People 2020.
Improving Interprofessional Collaborations

Let’s begin with the first step on the MAP-IT framework which is mobilize. One of the
major problems in our last disaster was no one knew their tasks and were just acting without
guidance. For a plan to be effective we need to identify the roles for partners and assign
responsibilities. An effective disaster health response needs coordinated efforts by professionals
from various disciplines (Glauberman et al., 2020). Our plan needs to coordinate with our first
responders which include the fire department, the EMTs, the police and sheriff’s department.
We need to work with local EMS to plan on ways to get individuals in need of urgent
care after a disaster. EMS or the police needs to communicate with the hospital to prepare them
for the traffic they’ll be receiving. Hospital personal needs to be trained on triage for care to be
efficient and effective. Triage which is the process of patient prioritization helps health care