NUR5212 Health professional leadership during disasters

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Select effective health professional leadership decision-making and risk-averse skills under the uncertainty of a low probability but high consequence disaster event.

2. 2

   Analyse how health professional leaders communicate during the challenges of crisis management and evaluate the effectiveness of the communication

3. 3

   Understand and apply government policies and guidelines that healthcare settings are required to use in their management for disaster events

4. 4

   Prioritise the requirements for Business Continuity planning in the context of disaster risk reduction

5. 5

   Discuss disaster preparedness of healthcare settings related to natural disasters climate change impacts

6. 6

   Promote educating future health professionals in disaster preparedness

7. 7

   Identify the concepts of the safe hospital index and apply these to any healthcare setting in a disaster event