Journal of Emergency Nursing
Volume 34, Issue 6 , Pages 504-508 , December 2008

Disaster Drill Exercise Documentation and Management: Are We Drilling to Standard?

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 Earn Up to 8.5 CE Hours. See page 595.

 This work was supported in part by grants from the Health Human Services (HFPEP070014-01-00) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (JSU).

 These data were presented in part at the 2007 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in Toronto, Calif.

PII: S0099-1767(08)00158-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2008.03.006

Journal of Emergency Nursing
Volume 34, Issue 6 , Pages 504-508 , December 2008

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