This piece is part of the DrexelNow series showcasing "A Day in the Class" for some of Drexel University's most interesting and impactful courses. In the control room before the quarterly Disaster ...

Only a few months have passed since the Indonesian tsunami disaster occurred on December 26, 2004. The town of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, was reported to be one of the hardest hit areas. This month, 2 ...

WASHINGTON - Tornado, hurricane or flood, nursing homes are woefully unprepared to protect frail residents in a natural disaster, government investigators say. Emergency plans required by the ...

The notable acceleration of global climate change is increasingly impacting healthcare, putting nurses on the frontlines of natural disaster relief more frequently than ever. Nurses play an essential ...

Sherrill Smith (center), dean of the UW Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, demonstrates for students the proper and improper methods of decontaminating a patient who has been exposed to radiation.

The coronavirus pandemic is a sudden, new threat to assisted living and skilled nursing homes — and those facilities already are under increasing threat from wildfire in California. A KQED ...

At least 11 people have reportedly died and over 30 have been injured in a fire at a nursing home in Bosnia. Smoke and flames then spread to the top floors of the so far unnamed building, Reuters ...

Charleen C. McNeill, PhD, MSN, RN, discusses key findings from a survey of nurses' emergency preparedness competence, the current state of emergency training, and what nurse leaders can do about it.

On the first Saturday in April, a Buffalo blizzard set the stage for a deadly traffic pileup resulting in serious injuries with the added risk of hypothermia. While a springtime snowstorm is nothing ...

Government officials vastly undercounted the death toll among Florida nursing home residents after the destruction of Hurricane Irma in 2017, according to new research led by a Brown University ...