Discussion Question

 Nursing crisis intervention

Consider the hurricane Andrew or Katrina, then put yourself in the role of the Local Emergency Management Agency Coordinator and answer the following questions.

1. What helpful or positive role can the local media play in helping to resolve the crisis? How does one facilitate that to happen?
2. What kind of training, education, and experience do you believe should be required to be an effective and competent manager of a crisis such as the scenario one described above?
3. Given a natural disaster such as is contained in this scenario, how do you go about coordinating and communicating an effective response?