Nurses role in times of disasters are in great demand during times of triage and rendering care. Nurses have both a personal and a professional role in relationship to disasters. Nurses’ personal role is …show more content…
In addition, they are also responsible for organizing all locally available manpower, supplies, equipment and services necessary for disaster emergency readiness, response and recovery (Emergency Management Agency, 2017). One method that enables Lackawanna County’s community to be adequately prepared for a natural disaster is CodeRed. CodeRed is a system that can be used to alert people to a variety of situations, from evacuation notices, weather advisories and highway closures to fire emergencies, boil-water notices and missing-children reports. It is capable of sending out countywide message alerts or within a defined community. The alerts can be delivered by text message, email, pager and even by voice message over a