(P1-61) Nursing Education for Disaster Management

Nursing Education for Disaster Preparedness and Response.

Catastrophic mass casualty events (MCEs), such as pandemic influenza outbreaks, earthquakes, or large-scale terrorism-related events, quickly and suddenly yield thousands of victims whose needs overwhelm local and regional health care systems, personnel, and resources. Such conditions require deploying scarce resources in a manner that is different from the more common multiple casualty event. ...

Volunteering for disaster nursing.

Education and research on disaster nursing in Japan.

The educational and research program "Disaster Nursing in a Ubiquitous Society in Japan" has facilitated the development of various networks for disaster nursing, disaster nursing care strategies, and disaster nursing education. Replication of these activities related to disaster nursing are encouraged globally to improve disaster outcomes.

Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Standards for Hospitals

Background and Objective: Hospitals play an important role in protecting the health and survival of people during disasters. Despite the development of risk management programs worldwide in recent years, hospital preparedness in disasters is low and one reason for that is the lack of hospital standards for disaster preparedness. This study aims to develop hospital accreditation standards for ho...

Disaster management and primary health care: implications for medical education

Natural and manmade disasters often result in the breakdown of social system and services with pronounced effects on human development and economy. They also cause illhealth and deaths either directly or through the disruption of health systems, leaving the affected communities without access to healthcare in times of emergency. Empirical evidence shows that these negative effects are dispropor...