scholarly journals Incorporation of Experiential Learning for Disaster Response for Veterinary Students, Veterinarians, and Other Animal Stakeholder Groups, Strengthens Overall Community Resilience

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (S1) ◽  
pp. S245
Author(s):  
Rebecca S. Mcconnico ◽  
Neely Walker ◽  
Christine Navarre ◽  
Mustajab Mirza ◽  
Martha Littlefield
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Stakeholder Groups

scholarly journals (P2-34) Experiential Learning in Disaster Response for Veterinary Students and Veterinarians

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. s146-s146
Author(s):  
R.S. Mcconnico ◽  
W. Wolfson ◽  
J. Taboada ◽  
R.A. Poirrier
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Incident Management ◽  
Specific Response ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Incident Command ◽  
Emergency Responders ◽  
Response Planning

Training for disaster responsiveness for veterinarians includes Incident Command System (ICS) and National Incident Management System (NIMS) comprehension, euthanasia, bio-security, all-hazards emergency preparedness, business continuity training, responder training, and incident de-briefing, Public and emergency management officials at all levels agree that saving animal lives saves human lives. Despite the recognition of the importance of veterinarians and other animal caretakers in animal disaster response and incident de-briefing, there has been less than adequate targeting of these groups for training opportunities leaving many veterinarians and other animal care takers vulnerable and unsure of their role when presented with a call to action in the midst of a disaster scenario in their home communities. The Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine (LSU-SVM) has taken advantage of its physical presence amidst a disaster prone region of the United States to form response teams made up of students, faculty, and staff for actual training events termed disaster response experiential learning. Through a solid partnership with the Louisiana State Animal Response Team (LSART) and other response groups, the LSU-SVM has developed a disaster response program that includes animal response planning, evacuation, sheltering, emergency triage, and technical rescue expertise. Five specific response activities that occurred between 2001 and 2010 where LSU-SVM partnered with local and regional emergency responders enabled veterinary students and veterinarians to provide the work force and engage in experiential learning in a “hand-over-hand” environment with certified emergency responders. The response activities and partnerships demonstrate a successful model for veterinary student and veterinarian training in disaster response, have provided robust training experiences for hundreds of veterinary students and veterinarians, and have resulted in the subsequent development of courses to address identified gaps in veterinary disaster response training.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Analysis of the Spontaneous Volunteer Response to the 2013 Sudan Floods: Changing the Paradigm

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Albahari ◽  
Carl H. Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Initial Response ◽  
Crowd Sourcing ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Humanitarian Response

AbstractIntroductionWhile the concept of community resilience is gaining traction, the role of spontaneous volunteers during the initial response to disasters remains controversial. In an attempt to resolve some of the debate, investigators examined the activities of a spontaneous volunteer group called Nafeer after the Sudan floods around the city of Khartoum in August of 2013.HypothesisCan spontaneous volunteers successfully initiate, coordinate, and deliver sustained assistance immediately after a disaster?MethodsThis retrospective, descriptive case study involved: (1) interviews with Nafeer members that participated in the disaster response to the Khartoum floods; (2) examination of documents generated during the event; and (3) subsequent benchmarking of their efforts with the Sphere Handbook. Members who agreed to participate were requested to provide all documents in their possession relating to Nafeer. The response by Nafeer was then benchmarked to the Sphere Handbook’s six core standards, as well as the 11 minimum standards in essential health services.ResultsA total of 11 individuals were interviewed (six from leadership and five from active members). Nafeer’s activities included: food provision; delivery of basic health care; environmental sanitation campaigns; efforts to raise awareness; and construction and strengthening of flood barricades. Its use of electronic platforms and social media to collect data and coordinate the organization’s response was effective. Nafeer adopted a flat-management structure, dividing itself into 14 committees. A Coordination Committee was in charge of liaising between all committees. The Health and Sanitation Committee supervised two health days which included mobile medical and dentistry clinics supported by a mobile laboratory and pharmacy. The Engineering Committee managed to construct and maintain flood barricades. Nafeer used crowd-sourcing to fund its activities, receiving donations locally and internationally using supporters outside Sudan. Nafeer completely fulfilled three of Sphere’s core standards and partially fulfilled the other three, but none of the essential health services standards were fulfilled. Even though the Sphere Handbook was chosen as the best available “gold standard” to benchmark Nafeer’s efforts, it showed significant limitations in effectively measuring this group.ConclusionIt appears that independent spontaneous volunteer initiatives, like Nafeer, potentially can improve community resilience and play a significant role in the humanitarian response. Such organizations should be the subject of increased research activity. Relevant bodies should consider issuing separate guidelines supporting spontaneous volunteer organizations.AlbahariA, SchultzCH. A qualitative analysis of the spontaneous volunteer response to the 2013 Sudan floods: changing the paradigm. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2017;32(3):240–248.

scholarly journals Community resilience and urban core shelter implementation: A Wellington case study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ralph Peter Titmuss
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
The World

<p>As a result of climate change, extreme weather events are becoming more common around the world. Coupled with the ever-present threat of sea level rise that coastal cities face there is a potential for far more severe weather events to occur. This thesis will seek to understand how an existing city can adapt to a more hostile environment, and how in the event of an extreme weather occurrence it maintains its function. There is an urgent need to understand how a city can respond when faced with these situations. Previous extreme weather events, Katrina, the Indian Ocean tsunami, and extreme flooding around the world, highlight the danger of a lack of preparedness and resilience found in most cities.  The purpose of this thesis is to understand how the concept of a core shelter, as a way to address the threats of extreme weather events, can be applied to a well-established urban context, Wellington NZ. A core shelter is a structure that in the event of a large-scale disaster, protects its users, and post-disaster still reaches permanent housing standards without being deemed to be a permanent dwelling. It will also look at whether it is possible to create areas in an existing city that can be considered “safe havens” in the event of an extreme natural incident.  This thesis outlines the need for these shelters by identifying the potential threats of climate change in a Wellington context, and by understanding the vulnerability of Wellington’s current building stock. It reaches a conclusion that through the implementation of core shelters in Wellington NZ, resilience will be improved, disaster response efforts will be aided, and destruction arising from extreme weather events will be reduced. In addition, it identifies the areas of Wellington that are deemed to be of higher risk in a disaster or extreme weather event, analyses an existing building’s potential to become a community resilience/core shelter, and proposes a custom building that could be built on Leeds St and Ghuznee St.</p>

Can Community Resilience to Disaster Be Taught?

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 58-68
Author(s):  
Bernard Anthony Jones
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Response ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Community Resiliency ◽  
Past Experiences

The field of resilience is multifaceted and diverse. The foundations of resilience research are embedded in psychology; however, in recent years, the concept has been adopted in many other areas. Moreover, resilience has become more prevalent in disaster response literature but is somewhat confusing in the different ways it is defined and applied. This paper attempts to clarify resilience and interest in developing dialogue about better ways to assist those who deal with tragedy and disaster. If we as a society want to survive, recover, and thrive in the aftermath of disaster and/or traumatic events, we need to start with assisting individuals and organizations in understanding resilience. We need to assist them in tapping into past experiences while enhancing their traits and characteristics for better future resilience. Hence, this paper seeks to address how community resiliency to disasters be taught.

Experiential Learning in Primary Care: Impact on Veterinary Students’ Communication Confidence

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniella Barron ◽  
Deep Khosa ◽  
Andria Jones-Bitton
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Clinical Education ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Veterinary Education ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Clinical Communication ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Veterinary Student ◽  
Before And After

Experiential learning is essential in medical and veterinary student education and can improve students’ communication with clients during medical appointments. There is limited research in veterinary education investigating the effectiveness of experiential learning environments to provide an integrative approach to teaching. The present study uses an experiential learning environment to introduce an integrative approach to communication skills training in veterinary clinical education. Participants were final year veterinary students whose self-confidence around 28 common clinical communication statements frequently discussed in clinical practice was assessed before and after a 3-week experiential learning rotation. Client and veterinary doctor ratings on students’ performance were also assessed. Students’ self-confidence in all but one of the clinical communication statements improved significantly ( p < .05). Veterinary doctor and clients’ ratings were overall positive. The results from this study supports the use of experiential learning to promote an integrated learning approach in veterinary education.

Are Pediatric Emergency Physicians More Knowledgeable and Confident to Respond to a Pediatric Disaster after an Experiential Learning Experience?

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 551-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilana Bank ◽  
Elene Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Pediatric Emergency ◽  
Mass Casualty ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Emergency Physicians ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
Advanced Learners ◽  
Medical Response

AbstractObjectivesPediatric hospital disaster responders must be well-trained and prepared to manage children in a mass-casualty incident. Simulations of various types have been the traditional way of testing hospital disaster plans and training hospital staff in skills that are used in rare circumstances. The objective of this longitudinal, survey-based, observational study was to assess the effect of disaster response and management-based experiential learning on the knowledge and confidence of advanced learners.MethodsA simulation-based workshop was created for practicing Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) physicians, senior PEM physicians, and critical care and pediatric surgery residents to learn how to manage a disaster response. Given that this particular group of learners had never been exposed to such a disaster simulation, its educational value was assessed with the goal of improving the quality of the hospital pediatric medical response to a disaster by increasing the responders’ knowledge and confidence. Objective and subjective measures were analyzed using both a retrospective, pre-post survey, as well as case-based evaluation grids.ResultsThe simulation workshop improved the learners’ perceived ability to manage patients in a disaster context and identified strengths and areas needing improvement for patient care within the disaster context.ConclusionAdvanced learners exposed to an experiential learning activity believed that it improved their ability to manage patients in a disaster situation and felt that it was valuable to their learning. Their confidence was preserved six months later.BankI, KhalilE. Are pediatric emergency physicians more knowledgeable and confident to respond to a pediatric disaster after an experiential learning experience?Prehosp Disaster Med. 2016;31(5):551–556.

Community resilience to natural disasters: the role of disaster entrepreneurship

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina K. Linnenluecke ◽  
Brent McKnight
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Organizational Response ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Latent Structures

Purpose The paper aims to examine the conditions under which disaster entrepreneurship contributes to community-level resilience. The authors define disaster entrepreneurship as attempts by the private sector to create or maintain value during and in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster by taking advantage of business opportunities and providing goods and services required by community stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach This paper builds a typology of disaster entrepreneurial responses by drawing on the dimensions of structural expansion and role change. The authors use illustrative case examples to conceptualize how these responses improve community resilience by filling critical resource voids in the aftermath of natural disasters. Findings The typology identifies four different disaster entrepreneurship approaches: entrepreneurial business continuity, scaling of organizational response through activating latent structures, improvising and emergence. The authors formulate proposition regarding how each of the approaches is related to community-level resilience. Practical implications While disaster entrepreneurship can offer for-profit opportunities for engaging in community-wide disaster response and recovery efforts, firms should carefully consider the financial, legal, reputational and organizational implications of disaster entrepreneurship. Social implications Communities should consider how best to harness disaster entrepreneurship in designing their disaster response strategies. Originality/value This research offers a novel typology to explore the role that for-profit firms play in disaster contexts and adds to prior research which has mostly focused on government agencies, non-governmental organizations and emergency personnel.

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