Evaluate responses of communicable diseases in healthcare today

Evaluate responses of communicable diseases in healthcare today

You are the infection control nurse of a 100-bed inpatient healthcare facility. With the increasing potential for a communicable disease exposure in your facility, the chief clinical officer has tasked you with the creation of a hospital response plan for a communicable disease outbreak in your healthcare facility.

Instructions

Create a hospital response plan that effectively addresses a healthcare facility’s actions in response to a communicable disease outbreak of your choosing. The response plan should:

1. Identify a communicable disease and explain why this particular disease necessitates a response plan
2. Include guidance on the following:
   1. Logistics: adequate physical resources and services required
   2. Triage: appropriate protocols and location
   3. Communication: timely and effective contact internal and external of the facility regarding a suspected or confirmed outbreak
   4. Infection control: sufficient measures to protect hospital employees, patients, and the public
   5. Human resources: efficient management of human capital in response to a suspected or confirmed outbreak
   6. Responsibilities of various hospital departments: effective responses by primary and ancillary departments in response to a suspected or confirmed outbreak
3. Reflect the nurse’s ability to:
   1. Assess and identify the disease outbreak
   2. Support containment and treatment of the disease
   3. Facilitate timely communication regarding the outbreak
4. Be supported by current evidence

For assistance on creating a hospital response plan, please use the template attached which also has the rubric attached.

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