Partnerships and the Emergency Response Plan SLP1

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Running head: PARTNERSHIPS AND THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN 1 Partnerships and the Emergency Response Plan Dr. John Sprague Trident University International 23 May 2021
PARTNERSHIPS AND THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN 2 Partnerships in an emergency response plan are vital for providing for the safety and security of a community in the event of a disaster. These partnerships not only save lives but provide the services required for a community to recover from those disasters. The National Response Framework or NRF contains guidelines for non-government organizations and volunteer involvement in the aftermath of a disaster. Many organizations can be called to provide assistance after a disaster occurs, including the American Red Cross. As a vital part of the National Response Framework and the emergency support function, the Red Cross provides specially trained liaisons to work at designated DHS and FEMA regional locations to support the agencies when a mass care disaster occurs. The American Red Cross works closely with local, tribal, and State governments to provide mass care services to victims of every disaster, large and small, in an affected area. As the largest non-government mass care service provider, the American Red Cross provides sheltering, feeding, bulk distribution of needed items, basic first aid, welfare information, and casework, among other services before, during, and after a disaster (Emergency Support Function #6 – Mass Care, Emergency Assistance, Housing, and Human Services Annex, 2008). When a disaster strikes, first responders and emergency management officials work to save life and property once this emergency phase of response has been completed. The red cross provides the resources for the community to recover, and the agency provides additional support to addressing any lingering community needs in the aftermath of a disaster. Emergency managers and first responders must make moral and critical decisions in a crisis environment. Even non- government organizations must utilize ethical decision-making when responding to disasters. Ethical decisions during a disaster and emergencies involve numerous elements, including
PARTNERSHIPS AND THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN 3 communication, education and training, awareness building, resource acquisition, and planning and resource allocation. Responders to a disaster must respond in a timely and effective manner while also ensuring that those decisions are made, considering cultural sensitivity in mind, and ensuring appropriate decisions during the response. Disasters have three phases: pre-disaster, during, and post-disaster, which all have their ethical dilemmas that emergency managers must be able to make decisions like triaging patients and informed consent (Aung et al., 2014). Government and non-government organizations that are involved with planning and responding to disasters have an ethical obligation to saves life and property while doing no harm to the community. This ethical obligation exists in all phases of response, including the planning phase, which focuses on lessening the harm to citizens in a disaster. The disaster phase itself, where the ethical obligation is to saves lives much like health care professionals; first responders commit to an ethical code to do no further harm during their response. During disasters, there are limited resources and mass casualty situations where not only health care providers but first responders may be required to limit the care given to mitigate any potential harm (Aung et al., 2014). All responding agencies, no matter if they are government, non-government, nonprofits, or volunteer organizations that respond to our assist in the planning for disasters, must use ethics in not only their decision making but their planning and critical thinking. These agencies have a duty to the community to be transparent about the information they know and to work to ensure the safety of the community. Disasters cause situations that can be extremely stressful on everyone involved, including those responding, but there must be ethics applied in all phases of disaster mitigation, response, and recovery.
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