Nurses have a role in ensuring safety and quality in healthcare and evaluating potential threats to quality and safety. A response plan is useful in determining the steps and actions that staff will take in a situation such as a disease outbreak.
Course Competency:
• Evaluate responses of communicable diseases in healthcare today.
Scenario:
You are the infection control nurse of a 100-bed inpatient healthcare facility. With the increasing potential for a communicable disease exposure in your facility, the chief clinical officer has tasked you with the creation of a hospital response plan for a communicable disease outbreak in your healthcare facility.
Instructions:
Create a hospital response plan that effectively addresses a healthcare facility's actions in response to a communicable disease outbreak of your choosing. The response plan should:
1. Identify a communicable disease and explain why this particular disease necessitates a response plan.