One of the main concerns in a nursing home when it comes to disaster planning is getting the people who live in the facility to safety. This presents a unique challenge because the residents cannot ...

The Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN), the benchmark for nursing specialty certification across the ...

Skilled nursing facilities (SNF) should always have a comprehensive and up-to-date disaster plan in place and, with hurricane season in full swing and winter just around the corner, now is a good time ...

Only a few months have passed since the Indonesian tsunami disaster occurred on December 26, 2004. The town of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, was reported to be one of the hardest hit areas. This month, 2 ...

The coronavirus pandemic is a sudden, new threat to assisted living and skilled nursing homes — and those facilities already are under increasing threat from wildfire in California. A KQED ...

This piece is part of the DrexelNow series showcasing "A Day in the Class" for some of Drexel University's most interesting and impactful courses. In the control room before the quarterly Disaster ...

It does not take a hurricane to put nursing home residents at risk when disaster strikes. Around the country, facilities have been caught unprepared for far more mundane emergencies than the ...

Sherrill Smith (center), dean of the UW Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, demonstrates for students the proper and improper methods of decontaminating a patient who has been exposed to radiation.

The coronavirus pandemic is a sudden, new threat to assisted living and skilled nursing homes — and those facilities already are under increasing threat from wildfire in California. A KQED ...