Mobilization of a nursing community after a disaster.
TOPIC. This article is a personal account of the author's experience of coordinating American Red Cross Disaster Health Services in her home community (Fort Worth, TX) following Hurricane Katrina. Although the community was 550 miles away from the impacted area, thousands of evacuees arrived in this...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives in Psychiatric Care Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 22 - 30 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2007
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