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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 31405" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>PS. oh yes, I also remember the drills for nuclear attack and bombs..........the civil defense preparedness etc. </p><p></p><p>On 9-11 I was a student nurse doing our very first day of on the floor clinical time in a major hospital, and when we started on duty, the very first thing that occured was the su pervisor showed up and told us to do an emergency census. None of us had any clue what the supervisor was talking about......and then we thought it was a prank on the new students. (us) Then with horror we realized it was not a joke.......and our hospital was preparing in the event that things might escalate and we needed to be ready. Whew! Talk about a scary first day! The good news is a few of us HAD already been working in the field for several years and once we figured out it was NOT a joke, we kinda figured out what to do and how to do it. </p><p>Yes, the drills are every bit as important for staff as for the kids or those persons for whom staff is responsible for. </p><p></p><p>To our surprise, we had a birthday party sleepover slumber party in a hotel one time, and around 4 am, (just as the kids fell asleep) a fire broke out in the hotel. Becuz the kids had some familiarity with emergency preparedness from the lockdowns at school- our evacuation was somewhat easier and the kids were not scared. The kids assumed it was a drill, and for some reason they assumed they would face disciplinary action from some "higher ups" if they did not follow direction to the letter- so I was able to get all the kids out safely and easily in no time at all. - even tho they had all just fallen asleep. I was grateful at that time that the kids had been well practiced for such an event. (It was quite scary to me to be in charge of not just my own children, but also other peoples children in such a middle of the nite, caught off guard emergency) But, the kids were well practiced and I was, too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 31405, member: 1697"] PS. oh yes, I also remember the drills for nuclear attack and bombs..........the civil defense preparedness etc. On 9-11 I was a student nurse doing our very first day of on the floor clinical time in a major hospital, and when we started on duty, the very first thing that occured was the su pervisor showed up and told us to do an emergency census. None of us had any clue what the supervisor was talking about......and then we thought it was a prank on the new students. (us) Then with horror we realized it was not a joke.......and our hospital was preparing in the event that things might escalate and we needed to be ready. Whew! Talk about a scary first day! The good news is a few of us HAD already been working in the field for several years and once we figured out it was NOT a joke, we kinda figured out what to do and how to do it. Yes, the drills are every bit as important for staff as for the kids or those persons for whom staff is responsible for. To our surprise, we had a birthday party sleepover slumber party in a hotel one time, and around 4 am, (just as the kids fell asleep) a fire broke out in the hotel. Becuz the kids had some familiarity with emergency preparedness from the lockdowns at school- our evacuation was somewhat easier and the kids were not scared. The kids assumed it was a drill, and for some reason they assumed they would face disciplinary action from some "higher ups" if they did not follow direction to the letter- so I was able to get all the kids out safely and easily in no time at all. - even tho they had all just fallen asleep. I was grateful at that time that the kids had been well practiced for such an event. (It was quite scary to me to be in charge of not just my own children, but also other peoples children in such a middle of the nite, caught off guard emergency) But, the kids were well practiced and I was, too. [/QUOTE]
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