DQ: Propose one example of a nursing intervention related to the disaster from each of the following levels: primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention.

NRS 427V Week 5 DQ 1

Throughout this course, you have viewed the Diary of Medical Mission videos dealing with the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in 2010. Reflect on this natural disaster by answering the following questions:

1.         Propose one example of a nursing intervention related to the disaster from each of the following levels: primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention. Provide innovative examples that have not been discussed by a previous student.

2.         Under which phase of the disaster do the three proposed interventions fall? Explain why you chose that phase.

3.         With what people or agencies would you work in facilitating the proposed interventions and why?

Link to the Diary of Medical Mission videos: