Emergency preparedness: What do new college students need to know and how do you inform them?
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Published:2018-07-01
Issue:4
Volume:16
Page:267
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ISSN:1543-5865
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Container-title:Journal of Emergency Management
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language:
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Short-container-title:JEM
Author:
Altizer, MA Andy,Lynn, MA Kathy A.,Murray, MS Larysa L.
Abstract
Active shooters, tornadoes, fires, floods, and power outages are concerns for every new student entering college. New students enter college with a variety of academic and nonacademic anxieties. Students express concerns of their study skills, as well as their ability to manage financial and social responsibilities, but seldom does a new student worry about personal safety or disasters. The first few minutes of an emergency can mean the difference between life and death. Candlelight vigils showing incredible sorrow among college students may become more frequent as active shooter incidents continue to increase in frequency and will undoubtedly occur again. The question is: What do new students need to know about emergency preparedness and how do you inform them? Information overload combined with new student mindset of invincibility makes emergency preparedness a tough topic to communicate effectively to new students. University officials owe it to new students to try.
Publisher
Weston Medical Publishing
Subject
Safety Research,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality,General Medicine,Emergency Medicine
Cited by
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