A Full Range of Disaster Scenarios
 

The ReadyRN: Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness online course prepares your nurses for major public health emergencies, including tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, infectious disease outbreaks, and biological, chemical, and radiological events. This course provides essential information that nurses need to effectively handle a disaster or major catastrophic event. Beyond general information, the ReadyRN course covers information that is applicable to any catastrophe, including legal and ethical issues, psychosocial impact, crisis communications, care of children during disasters, and much more.

The ReadyRN online course includes several unique resources, including a personal family disaster planning guide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) core competencies, and the International Nursing Coalition for Mass Casualty Education competencies. In addition, numerous Web links provide access to other important resource material.
   
  Richly Interactive
  This course offers nurses the opportunity to earn up to 25* continuing nursing education contact hours awarded by Elsevier/Mosby's Office of Nursing Continuing Education. Each of the 26 ReadyRN lessons is rich in interactivity and contains a variety of multimedia elements, including text, tables, audio, and video. Captivating photographs from real-life disasters and public health emergencies provide additional insight into disaster planning and response.
   
  Prepare and Protect
  It is no exaggeration that healthcare organizations must be ready for anything in today's world. With the ReadyRN course, your nurses will be able to respond swiftly, competently, and decisively to any disaster or major public health emergency. That's why the ReadyRN: Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness online course is the perfect complement to your hospital disaster preparedness plan. Contact Elsevier | MC Strategies today to learn more about this vital readiness tool.
   
 
   
  Lesson Listings
 
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Essentials of Disaster Planning

 - Biological and Chemical Terrorism
- The Federal Disaster Response Network
 - Surveillance Systems for Bioterrorism
- Pyschosocial Impacts of Disaster
 - Biological Agents of Concern
- Legal and Ethical Issues
 - Early Recognition of Biological Events
- Communications: The Role of the Media
 - Establishing Clinics for Mass Immunization
- Overview of Disaster Management
 - Chemical Agents of Concern
- Disaster Triage
 - Radiological Incidents and Emergencies
- Restoring Public Health
 - Shelter Nursing
- Managing External Emergencies
 - Decontamination and PPE
- Management of Pyschosocial Effects
 - Burn Recognition and Management
- Care of Children During Disasters
 - Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Natural Disasters
 - Explosive and Traumatic Injuries
- Environmental Disasters and Emergencies - Pandemic Influenza and Novel H1N1 Influenza A
   
  *Elsevier/Mosby is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Elsevier/Mosby is provider approved by the Florida Board of Nursing. The provider number is #50-4681. Elsevier/Mosby is provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing. The California Provider number
is CEP 3257.

 
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