A school bus transporting a local university's basketball team has just crashed in the rain on the side of the road. The bus was transporting approximately 60 people. Which classification should the nurse use to describe the situation?
1. multiple-casualty incident
2. natural disaster
3. human-generated disaster
4. mass-casualty incident
Correct Answer: 1
A multiple-casualty event does not exceed the capacity of local resources to provide needed medical care. Natural disasters are caused by acts of nature or emerging diseases. Human-generated disasters are either accidental or intentional. A mass-casualty incident occurs quickly and suddenly and overwhelms local resources with many seriously ill or injured victims needing care.
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