Nurses have unique responsibilities in a disaster. In the summer of 2004 four consecutive hurricanes swept through Florida. Which of the following were tasks the nurses on disaster medical assistant teams did?
A) Set up immunization clinics
B) Assisted in running hospitals so the regular staff could go home to repair damaged homes
C) Provided all the medical care for disaster victims
D) Allowed pets to come to the shelters with disaster victims

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Nurses on disaster medical assistant teams assisted in running hospitals so the regular staff could go home to repair damaged homes. They may have also attended to disaster victims in shelters or provided basic medical care, but they would not have been solely responsible for all medical care. Setting up immunization clinics and allowing pets in shelters would have been handled by other responders.

Nurses Have Unique Responsibilities in a Disaster