You are writing from a health perspective as a nurse:
1. Identify the psychosocial effects likely to occur in various types of disasters.
2. Formulate strategies that Nurses can use to help people in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.
3. Discuss the impact of disaster trauma on first responders.
4. Describe community reactions to a large scale disaster.
5. Describe the psychosocial training needs of all disaster responders
6. Describe helpful interventions for use with survivors of a disaster.
7. Describe the characteristics of PTSD.
8 Discuss the possible benefits and dangers of psychological debriefing.
