Leading from Preparedness Through Recovery - The 2012 ...

wednesday, May 23, 2012Session Descriptionssession DescriptionsWEDNESday, May 23, 2012Session 01: Opening CeremonyTime: 0830-0900 hrsRoom: Delta A BallroomSession 02: Preparedness and Professionalism inPublic Health and Disaster Management: HistoricalReflectionsPresenter: Dale Smith, PhDTime: 0900-1000 hrsRoom: Delta A BallroomFocus Area: General SessionIn 1793 the ports of the United States were hit by a terrible yellow feverepidemic. In the new nation’s largest city, Philadelphia, this epidemic hadmany effects that have attracted the attention of historians, and one ofthe most far-reaching was the argument, eventually successful, made byBenjamin Rush that members of a profession had a responsibility to thelarger community, not just their paying customers. In the centuries thatfollowed, in epidemic and disaster, the health and safety professionshave discovered many individual and important tools and techniques tomanage disasters, some of which will be highlighted. However, the costsof preparedness are real and immediate, as Ibsen noted in An Enemy ofthe People: “the majority never have right on their side.” As a result, mostpreparedness is achieved after the fact of a disaster for which the communitywas inadequately prepared. As the flu threat and immunization campaign of1976 demonstrated, preparedness without disaster can lead to significantpublic criticism. Perhaps most importantly, as many new environmentalthreats emerged and independent professional traditions evolved in thetwentieth century, it became clear that interprofessional education andcooperation would be crucial to future progress in the management of andrecovery from disasters and public health emergencies.Learning Objectives:u Outline the development of the professional obligation to thecommunity.u Provide three examples of learning preparedness from disasters.u Recognize and outline the importance of different skill sets andprofessions in response to late twentieth-century domestic disasters.Session 03: Integrating Resilience intoDisaster Medical CarePresenters: LCDR Meghan Corso, PsyD; CAPT David Morrissette, PhD,LCSWTime: 1030-1145 hrsRoom: Bayou CDFocus Area: Healthcare SystemsThe panel will present a model of disaster medical care that integratesbehavioral health into overall physical and emotional health and buildsresilience among survivors of disasters. This model drastically changes theoften stigmatizing approach of traditional mental health and its applicationto a disaster response. Specifically, this model focuses on a whole-personwellness approach to behavioral health care delivery in a disaster response.Survivors are solicited for common physical, emotional, or behavioralconcerns and briefly treated in conjunction with the medical care services.The goal is to augment the medical services being delivered as well as providebehavioral health care that is less stigmatized and addresses the needs ofthe whole person including adjustment to the disaster, grief, mental illness,or substance abuse. Lastly, this model will assist the survivors in buildingresilience through education and encouragement of healthy behaviors. Thepanel will present an urgent care scenario in which a behavioral healthteam deployed a Wellness Center to augment medical care. Using selfreferral and physician referral forms citing common reactions to disaster, ie,eating, sleeping, emotional stress, substance use, and isolation, patients areprovided with brief counseling and education. As a result, more than one outof every four sought behavioral health consultation and without disruptionor delay to the provision of other health services. The panel will present aresilience model that is particularly well suited to a disaster response to:integrate behavioral health with medical services through education andcounseling on self-care; address common behavioral reactions to disasterand loss; normalize common responses to trauma exposure and buildresilience; create opportunities to screen and assess for suicide, depressionand acute stress response; destigmatize mental health and substance abusescreening, treatment, and referral.Learning Objectives:u Explain the concept of wellness in improving resilience and how it canbe implemented in a medical disaster response.u Operationalize concepts for implementation in a medical disasterresponse.u Describe clear roles for behavioral health providers in medical settings.Intended Audience: Certified counselors, emergency physicians, EMT/paramedics, healthcare executives, health education specialists, industrialhygienists, marriage & family therapists, medical administrators, nurses,pharmacists, physicians, social workersSession 04: Palliative Care Considerations inDisaster SituationsPresenters: Carma Erickson-Hertz, MS; Marianne Matzo, PhD, GNP-BC,FPCN; Tia Powell, MD; Jon Surbeck, MATime: 1030-1145 hrsRoom: Bayou EFocus Area: Healthcare SystemsPalliative care has implications during disasters. While we routinely improvethe quality of life and mitigate suffering for people facing serious illness,our disaster preparedness planning efforts often fail to account and planfor those patients who will die from illness, injury, or lack of access to lifesavingresources during disasters. In mass casualty events, it is likely therewill be more patients who require care than we have resources to treat.Those patients will require palliative care techniques, like pain and symptommanagement. Secondly, we will need to maintain services for those receivingpalliative care services at the time of the disaster. Advanced illness and endof-lifecare pose particular challenges during health emergences, givencomplex care needs and the often competing demands for trained providers,342012 Integrated Training Summit