405-O. Emergency Preparedness Training – Emergency and Community Nurses' Perceived Needs

Community emergency/disaster preparedness.

Emergency and Disaster Preparedness in Nurses: A Concept Analysis

Introduction: Given the growing rate of accidents and disasters in the world, preparing nurses as the main group responding to these events is crucial; however, a review of literature suggests no comprehensive and theoretical or practical definitions for this concept in nursing, which has been often misunderstood and used as an alternative to other similar concepts. Objective: The presen...

Emergency Nurses’ Requirements for Disaster Preparedness

BACKGROUND Natural and man-made disasters affect people, communities, and health systems. Nurses play a key role in the health system and must be prepared for appropriate response in disasters. OBJECTIVES This study was done to assess the current knowledge of nurses in emergency departments for disaster preparedness. PATIENTS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on 110 emerg...

emergency nurses’ requirements for disaster preparedness

results based on the findings, most of the participants (64.5%) were aged 30 - 39 years old. 84% of the cases were female and 97.3% had a bachelor’s degree. the average perceived knowledge of nurses was 2.43 ± 1.01. the nurses had the highest familiarity with triage and lowest knowledge in epidemiology and decision-making. conclusions lack knowledge of nurses regarding response to disaster situ...

Training in Pre-hospital Emergency: Needs and Truths

Introduction: More people in the world have lack access to formal pre-hospital emergency. Pre-hospital system should be simple, efficient, and continuous. In emergencies, Caring interventions and in pre-hospital environment is based on independent judgments, decision-making skills, and prioritizations, which is achieved through the training. This study aimed to discuses about current educationa...