Book contents
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD I
- FOREWORD II
- Contents
- CONTRIBUTORS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO DISASTERS AND DISASTER NURSING
- CHAPTER 2 HEALTHCARE FACILITY PREPAREDNESS
- CHAPTER 3 COMMUNITY BEHAVIOR AND RESPONSE TO DISASTER
- CHAPTER 4 FIRST RESPONDERS
- CHAPTER 5 DISASTER TRIAGE
- CHAPTER 6 HOSPITAL IMPACT: EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
- CHAPTER 7 HOSPITAL IMPACT: IMMEDIATE ISSUES
- CHAPTER 8 HOSPITAL IMPACT: LONG-TERM ISSUES
- CHAPTER 9 HOSPITAL IMPACT: INTERNAL DISASTERS
- CHAPTER 10 HEALTHCARE FACILITIES INCIDENT COMMAND
- CHAPTER 11 CHEMICAL PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE
- CHAPTER 12 BIOLOGICAL PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE
- CHAPTER 13 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OF RADIATION INJURIES AND ILLNESSES
- CHAPTER 14 EXPLOSIVE EVENT PREPAREDNESS/RESPONSE
- CHAPTER 15 DECONTAMINATION
- CHAPTER 16 POPULATIONS WITH VULNERABILITIES AND SPECIAL NEEDS
- CHAPTER 17 DISASTERS AND CHILDREN
- CHAPTER 18 REGIONAL PLANNING
- CHAPTER 19 US FEDERAL RESOURCES AND RESPONSE
- CHAPTER 20 INTERNATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE
- CHAPTER 21 DISASTER NURSING RESPONSES IN JAPAN
- CHAPTER 22 PREPAREDNESS OF THE ISRAELI HEALTH SYSTEM FOR EMERGENCIES
- CHAPTER 23 PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE
- CHAPTER 24 PANDEMIC PLANNING
- CHAPTER 25 HEALTH ISSUES IN HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES
- CHAPTER 26 DISASTER MENTAL HEALTH
- CHAPTER 27 DISASTER ETHICS
- CHAPTER 28 DISASTER RECOVERY
- CHAPTER 29 THE SOUTHEAST ASIA TSUNAMI: HEALTH ASPECTS
- CHAPTER 30 HURRICANE KATRINA: HEALTH ASPECTS
- CHAPTER 31 DISASTER NURSING EDUCATIONAL COMPETENCIES
- CHAPTER 32 DISASTER NURSING RESEARCH
- CHAPTER 33 DISASTER RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
- INDEX
CHAPTER 3 - COMMUNITY BEHAVIOR AND RESPONSE TO DISASTER
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2010
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD I
- FOREWORD II
- Contents
- CONTRIBUTORS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO DISASTERS AND DISASTER NURSING
- CHAPTER 2 HEALTHCARE FACILITY PREPAREDNESS
- CHAPTER 3 COMMUNITY BEHAVIOR AND RESPONSE TO DISASTER
- CHAPTER 4 FIRST RESPONDERS
- CHAPTER 5 DISASTER TRIAGE
- CHAPTER 6 HOSPITAL IMPACT: EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
- CHAPTER 7 HOSPITAL IMPACT: IMMEDIATE ISSUES
- CHAPTER 8 HOSPITAL IMPACT: LONG-TERM ISSUES
- CHAPTER 9 HOSPITAL IMPACT: INTERNAL DISASTERS
- CHAPTER 10 HEALTHCARE FACILITIES INCIDENT COMMAND
- CHAPTER 11 CHEMICAL PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE
- CHAPTER 12 BIOLOGICAL PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE
- CHAPTER 13 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OF RADIATION INJURIES AND ILLNESSES
- CHAPTER 14 EXPLOSIVE EVENT PREPAREDNESS/RESPONSE
- CHAPTER 15 DECONTAMINATION
- CHAPTER 16 POPULATIONS WITH VULNERABILITIES AND SPECIAL NEEDS
- CHAPTER 17 DISASTERS AND CHILDREN
- CHAPTER 18 REGIONAL PLANNING
- CHAPTER 19 US FEDERAL RESOURCES AND RESPONSE
- CHAPTER 20 INTERNATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE
- CHAPTER 21 DISASTER NURSING RESPONSES IN JAPAN
- CHAPTER 22 PREPAREDNESS OF THE ISRAELI HEALTH SYSTEM FOR EMERGENCIES
- CHAPTER 23 PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE
- CHAPTER 24 PANDEMIC PLANNING
- CHAPTER 25 HEALTH ISSUES IN HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES
- CHAPTER 26 DISASTER MENTAL HEALTH
- CHAPTER 27 DISASTER ETHICS
- CHAPTER 28 DISASTER RECOVERY
- CHAPTER 29 THE SOUTHEAST ASIA TSUNAMI: HEALTH ASPECTS
- CHAPTER 30 HURRICANE KATRINA: HEALTH ASPECTS
- CHAPTER 31 DISASTER NURSING EDUCATIONAL COMPETENCIES
- CHAPTER 32 DISASTER NURSING RESEARCH
- CHAPTER 33 DISASTER RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
- INDEX
Summary
ON 11 SEPTEMBER 2001, while the first formal emergency responders were trying to cope with the devastation caused by the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, an important–but rarely discussed – response activity was underway. In addition to the many people who evacuated Lower Manhattan by walking uptown or across the Brooklyn Bridge, an estimated 300,000 to 1,000,000 commuters and area residents were evacuated via an emergent flotilla of harbor vessels, including ferry boats, dinner cruise vessels, harbor tugs, and private watercraft. Some vessel captains followed directions issued by the US Coast Guard, whose officers had issued a call for all available boats to provide assistance. Other vessels converged to the site prior to, or without having heard, the Coast Guard call, and many acted independently and according to their best judgment, rather than under agency or harbor pilot direction. Quickly, a landward support network developed along the waterfront, with individuals taking steps to facilitate the embarking and disembarking of evacuees (either by providing direction, forming queues of evacuees, or removing barriers); providing basic first aid; transporting evacuees after they reached the waterfronts of New Jersey, Brooklyn, or Staten Island; or managing supplies, equipment, and emergency personnel to be transported back to the event site (Ground Zero). Although no pre-existing plan outlined the way in which this activity evolved, the waterborne evacuation was improvised successfully and illustrates the important role that citizens and non-governmental organizations play in emergency evacuations and disaster response efforts.
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- International Disaster Nursing , pp. 29 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010