What is disaster Nursing?
Disaster Nursing is the branch of nursing dedicated to helping the community through a crisis produced by a natural or man made disaster.
Disaster Nursing is part of public health which part of primary health. Disaster nursing also seeks ways to prevent and prepare better for disaster.
There are many natural disaster like earthquakes, floods, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. There are also man made disasters like economic crashes such as the one we lived in 1930, wars and famines.
Despite all human advances our current civilization is not well prepared for disaster. However, there are solutions at hand as explained below.
According to an article published in the Auburn Reporter in March 12 2014, humanity is not well prepared to deal with disaster nor our governments or general public think much about preparing and preventing disasters.
It is natural for people not wanting to face the worst doom scenario, leaving the outcome of the event to fate, however there are effective permanent sustainable ways of dealing with disasters.
One of the most effective ways of dealing with disasters is decentralized planning of human settlements and the best examples are ecovillages, transition towns and cohousing projects.
The reason why these types of human settlements are so resilient is because they promote off-the grid, pod-like, cell like structure settlements that flow with natural principles using permaculture to support not only human life but all the life around the environment where the settlement is embedded.
Disaster Nursing can be very effective in public health planning and mitigation of risks of disasters especially if combined with the application of sustainable resilient permanent measures like the use of ecovillages, transition towns and cohousing projects.