Multidisciplinary

Understanding Crises and Disasters: Characteristics, Myths, Preparation, and Response (Code 21)

Primary Presenter(s)

• MS

  Matthew Seeger, PhD

  Professor
  Wayne State
  Detroit, Michigan

Crises loom: Come explore the range of disasters that await, the basics of crisis and disaster management, present and emerging responses, and implications for forensic nursing.

Learning Outcome(s). Increased knowledge about:

• the emerging interdisciplinary role of disaster management.
• the disaster management life cycle of Risk Mitigation, Planning Crisis Preparedness, Developing Response Capacity, and Recovery and Renewal.
• crisis and disaster management and response and the expanding role of the forensic nurse.