Please Respond Unit 9 DQ 2

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of one peer. Address your peer's concerns about the debriefing session with specific evidence-based processes used to hold people accountable to standards of performance and ethics in health care. Suggest high but achievable performance and quality changes for similar situations in the future. Lastly, suggest ways resource utilization standards might need to change.

"As a health care worker, it is already hard enough to perform daily activities at work, having to deal with a disaster evacuation can certainly put a strong strain and stress in a health care worker.  I can understand why the tension between nurses arises because it is a stressful job, however, at the same time, health care worker needs to stand together and make sure that the residents are safely evacuated.  The residents should’ve been the priority of the situation during the scenario.

One issue that stuck to me is when I found out that some employees have quit their job in between the disaster.  I personally cannot understand the reasoning of quitting in the middle of the time that everyone is in need of your service.  It was obvious that their standards of performance and ethics were not present.  However, on the positive side, there were still employees who have stuck throughout the disaster and have contributed in making sure residents were evacuated to the best of their ability.

I think that the original requirements and expectations were communicated and evaluated well.  However, there is still room for improvements.  Certain detailed questions could have been asked especially in the case of the Alzheimer’s patient.  Like what the coordinator said, there were certain things that can be easily looked over at and these things needs to be listed and in a modified plan so that it won’t be missed again in the future.

The media has focused more on the mistakes and negative issues that the facility has done.  I think that it is important as a community to see the effort of each and everyone has done in order to evacuate the residents safely.  It is obvious that it wasn’t perfect but overall, the facility did a smooth job during the disasters evacuation.

The debriefing session has pointed out certain things that need to be improved or added in the evacuation plan.  It is good and helpful that they are practicing drills and have a plan already developed and have actually implemented.  By doing the debriefing, they can point out specifics that needs to be changed in order to have a smoother and more organized evacuation plan in the future."