During a flood emergency, how should non-ambulatory patients be evacuated from a lower floor?

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Follow the facility's evacuation plan, moving them to higher floors using available equipment. Patients should be evacuated to higher floors following the facility's disaster plan using appropriate equipment and assistance. Leaving them in rooms is abandonment. Pushing through floodwater is dangerous—the current can be strong. Waiting for water to drain risks patient safety and may delay critical evacuation. The facility's established protocol must be followed.