Clinical Update – Disaster management with Don Garlick

This week on the Podcast we bring you another clinical update – disaster management with Don Garlick. Don is an Emergency Manager and Critical Care Nurse at Ballarat Health Services in Victoria, Australia. Don is also a reservist nursing officer in the Australian Army and has worked for the Country Fire Authority for more than 32 years. More recently Don has worked at the Howard Springs Quarantine Facility with AUSMAT. He was also deployed with the AUSMAT Alpha Team to West & Far West NSW, and was seconded to a Site Manager role for the Ballarat Community (Mass) COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic is the COVID-19 Response Coordinator.

Don gives us a comprehensive background into the history of state and federal governance around disaster management before moving onto the principals, planning and processes we follow when faced with external disasters in the ED.

We had a few internet connection and audio problems during the recording, but we don't think it detracts too much from Don's insight and breadth of knowledge about disaster management. We hope you enjoy this week’s episode as much as we enjoyed catching up with Don.