Clinical Activities: Disaster Planning, Preparedness, and Response
Assess your patient population’s (individual, family, or group) knowledge of disaster planning, preparedness, and response. Ask the following questions:
o What is your emergency plan for a natural disaster (e.g., fire, flood, earthquake, volcano eruption) or an active shooter in your neighborhood?
o Do you have an emergency kit or go bag?
o Do you have a plan for your pets? If yes, what is the plan?
o How will you communicate with family members? Have you determined a place to meet if you get separated? If so, where?
Practice the evacuation plan with your patient population in the home or community agency as appropriate.
Obviously with design’s changing face and new brands and business taking over the lead, it is crucial to innovate and change on the strategy. Innovation goes hand with hand with the design strategy as well. In fact, as stated by Lockwood (2008), “innovation is dependent upon design”. It is simply invention plus design. Through years the designers gained the need to give the functioning invention an aesthetic look. Now days the design makes the product tangible and usable and gives it a bigger value. It is safe to say that sales, business growth, brands reputation do rely on the design directly. Through collected immense data from multiple researchers, the data tells us how impactful can a smart visual and strategical thinking be and what difference can these points make in the future. If you take all this points to consideration, it only tells how design is important. Stop and think about it. When we step into a bakery shop to buy something to eat and you have no idea how everything tastes, you decide on the looks. Or if you are buying a bicycle and you have two options with same price, without hesitation you pick the brand you like look wise more or is known to you already. It is simple as that. A good design matters.