title: Larger role in disaster planning seen for quality managers. Skills in planning, safety seen as assets for emergency management.
abstract: Systems knowledge is essential, but so is the ability to scale back demands in light of reality. All disaster planning must be done in the context of providing optimal, safe patient care. Bureaucracy may be first casualty in quality manager's response to a sudden disaster.
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D011361:Professional Competence; D024382:Professional Role; D011786:Quality Control; D014481:United States