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Homework: Terrorist Bomb Attacks In Ohio State University Paper

For this homework you will create a detailed disaster plan for a selected community or geographic area.

Guidelines and directives for this paper:

I. Select a small geographic community for which to create a disaster plan. e.g.,

A. the community that you chose for your community assessment
B. a large workplace community (one with many employees)
C. a university campus community
D. a public or private school community
E. an urban business community
F. a medical center

II. Perform a risk assessment of the selected community

III. Create a disaster plan for one of the following potential disasters:

A. Earthquake
B. Terrorist bomb attack(s), bioterrorism
C. Random shooter
D. Hurricane with severe flooding
E. Radiation disaster (e.g, Limerick Power Plant)
F. other as approved by the instructor

IV. Write-up a disaster plan based on the best chance to prevent injury and/or death. You may get ideas from your text and/or any reputable disaster management website. Consider:

A. What can be done to prevent/mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters.?

B. Measures that can be taken to prevent or minimize injuries, death and destruction.

C. Discuss the role that the community/public health nurse might play in the implementation of the plan.

V. Address the most important feature/s for your chosen location and the specific disaster (e.g., hurricane, earthquake, tornado, random shooter, etc.)

VI. Begin your paper introducing the topic followed by a brief essay describing the community and the risk assessment.

VII. The actual plan can be in outline form. Bulleted points and/or Roman numeral outline format is fine. However, do not copy & past a disaster plan from another source. No points will be awarded if a disaster plan is copied and pasted from another source. Make it your own. Customize the plan to your chosen community or population.

VIII. Summary-Be sure to include a summary statement pulling your points together.

IX. Reference page-End with a properly formatted reference page. All in-text citations should be supported on the reference page and any references listed should also appear in-text in the form of citation/s.

X. In addition to the ATI Engage module, include at least one peer-reviewed article, and one reputable website, i.e. FEMA to support your claims.