The only time we have to prepare ourselves for a hopeless situation is before an event occurs. If you wait until you are in the midst of a crisis, accident or dilemma, it is too late. You can only respond in the manner you have practiced before the event. Let me give an example of preparation that began when I was in nurses’ training at the California Hospital School of Nursing.Training for DisastersI trained in one of the oldest hospitals in the Los Angeles area, an area well-noted for its violence. Located on the corner of Hope St. and W. Pico Blvd. (the northern border of the 1965 Watts Riots), our dormitory was a very old three-story wood structure which would burn down in less than three minutes, or so we were told. Every month we had a fire drill in the middle of the night. Our neighbors loved it! They were all eyes as the student nurses went running out of the building into the street in their underwear or pajamas. One thing we were taught to do was grab a towel, soak it in water and throw it over our head […]

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