A Good Approach to Overcoming Infectious Disease Outbreaks

A Good Approach to Overcoming Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Healthcare organizations play critical roles in responding to emergency management issues. Epidemics are inevitable, and hospitals ought to develop proper approaches to deal with them when they occur. For instance, recently, the COVID-19 pandemic, a deadly viral and highly communicable disease had almost crippled many healthcare organizations due to the rapidly increasing number of infected individuals. The worst thing that contributed to adverse consequences was that coronavirus had no cure, and hospitals admitted patients in critical condition to help manage the symptoms. In that light, healthcare organizations should embrace emergency preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery. Hospital emergency committees should ensure that a health institution has a better approach to addressing medical emergency issues when they occur. They should not start preparing when the disaster has already happened. The paper focuses on an appropriate approach to addressing the outbreak of an infectious disease. Moreover, a process map for the approach to be implemented will be generated to show how the hospital will respond to the emergency management problem. A Proper Approach to Address an Aspect of Medical Emergency Management Issue
Healthcare administrators hold critical responsibilities for preparing, mitigating, responding to, and recovering from infectious disease outbreaks, particularly within their communities. In particular, an outbreak might affect only a specific region, nationwide, or worldwide, like the case of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospital management, administrators, managers, and emergency management committees should ensure that there exist well-established protocols and procedures in place to address healthcare-related disasters. So far, the world has encountered several deadly pandemics and epidemics, including Ebola and coronavirus. On that note, it would inappropriate for hospitals to establish proper strategies to address such epidemics when they have already happened. By learning from the pandemics or epidemics that have happened, it is vital to have well-established protocols for dealing with infectious disease outbreaks. Based on the epidemics and pandemics that have occurred in the past, it is evident that healthcare professionals have to inevitably risk their health to help the affected individuals (Markwell et al., 2020). In the case of the most recent pandemic, COVID-19, some physicians got infected while helping their patients. Some of the factors that might have contributed to healthcare providers’ infection are increased patient admission, the lack of enough personal protection equipment (PPE), or compromised PPEs among others. As such, if healthcare professionals feel as if their lives are at risk, they might fail to meet their responsibilities of providing proper patient care. The best approach to address the outbreak of infectious diseases should comprise various elements. First, healthcare professionals should be well-prepared through effective training and lifelong learning. A medical organization should develop and implement a standardized system that describes preparedness activities (Rooij et al., 2020). Since there are different types of e...