Public health nurse play a critical role in the mitigation phase. Mitigation is a preventive measure used to identify the risks from causing a disaster and reduce the severity or impact of a catastrophe (Harkness and DeMarco, 2016). Implementing mitigation requires the involvement of the whole community and emergency management members. As a public health nurse, one of their important responsibilities during mitigation phase is to help and protect the health and safety of communities by determining the actual and potential disaster threats or hazards. PHN can educate the community on how they can reduce their risks from a range of hazards. Infrastructure loss such as damage of municipals, businesses, hospitals, and pharmacies can ripple
