Recent burn disasters exposed critical gaps and successes in emergency response, patient triage, resource coordination, and interdisciplinary care. By sharing these insights and strategies through this educational program, healthcare professionals will be equipped with actionable knowledge to improve preparedness, enhance resilience, and optimize outcomes during future large-scale burn emergencies.
Learning Objectives:
- Summarize key nursing and operational lessons learned from recent U.S. burn disasters and discuss their implications for trauma and burn surge readiness.
- Describe how limited preparedness, delayed coordination, and challenges with real-time information (e.g., burn bed counts, watchboard access) can directly impact patient outcomes, with special attention to pediatric, rural, and non-burn facilities.
- Identify three actionable steps trauma and burn nurses can take to strengthen readiness, including: (1) reinforcing pre-incident education and awareness of burn disaster resources, (2) leveraging just-in-time tools such as telemedicine and standardized handoff sheets, and (3) prioritizing mental health support for patients, families, and responders.
- Recognize the intersection of burn disaster readiness with broader all-hazards nursing preparedness, and outline how nursing leadership can better integrate with coalitions, emergency management, and specialty partners to improve coordination, communication and support during high-impact events.
Members who are logged will be provided with a CE Credit link (below) for the duration of 3 years from the original presentation date (noted above). After 3 years, CE will no longer be made available. Members however are still welcome to watch the presentation independently for non-CE credit.
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Speaker(s):Speaker: Annette Newman MS, RN, CCRN
Disaster Preparedness Consultant, Utah Hospital Association
Western Region Burn Disaster Coordinator, American Burn Association
State Coordinator, Western Regional Alliance for Pediatric Emergency Management
Network Operations and Hubsite Support, Pediatric Pandemic Network
