OPTION #1 – Your facility’s disaster plan:

Review the disaster plans in place within your facility. This is the best option. Your purposeful review may benefit your practice should a disaster occur. Do not attempt to analyze hospital-wide plans; this is too time-consuming! However, you may have to “skim” large parts of the plan to find what you would like to write about.

-Select a segment of your facility’s plan that needs improvement or is an exemplary part of the plan.
-Discuss what needs improvement and what a possible resolution might be.
-If it is an exemplary part of the plan, what makes it exemplary? Defend your assertion with peer reviewed journal(s).

OPTION #2 – A needs assessment of your facility:

If you cannot locate your facility’s disaster plan, you can use the “Hospital Disaster Preparedness Self-Assessment Tool” in the Additional Required Readings under the Final Project banner. Do not attempt to use the entire tool; this is too time-consuming!

-Select a segment of the tool to assess your facility.
-Discuss your assessment findings.
-Offer a resolution to negative findings or commend positive findings (and what makes it positive). Defend your assertion with peer reviewed journal(s).

OPTION #3 – An example of a hospital’s disaster plan:

If you are employed in a setting other than a hospital (ie: clinic, home health, etc.), unemployed or your facility does not have a disaster plan, please review the example disaster plan on the Moodle course page. Do not attempt to analyze the hospital-wide plan; this is too time-consuming! However, you may have to “skim” large parts of the plan.

-Select a segment of the facility’s example plan that needs improvement or is an exemplary part of the plan to find what you would like to write about.
-Discuss what needs improvement and what a possible resolution might be.
-If it is an exemplary part of the plan, what makes it exemplary? Defend your assertion with peer reviewed journal(s).

APA format applies (in-text citations as indicated, double spacing, title page, and reference page). Your submission should not exceed two to three pages (2-3) pages excluding the title page and reference list. This is intended to be scholarly writing. Support your assertions with evidence-based, peer-reviewed nursing journals as indicated.