Does Tabletop Exercise Enhance Knowledge and Attitude in Preparing Disaster Drills?

Husna, Cut; Kamil, Hajjul; Yahya, Mustanir; Tahlil, Teuku; Darmawati, Darmawati

doi:10.14710/nmjn.v10i2.29117

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“…Four studies found that tabletop exercises were valuable and recommended their inclusion into nursing programs as an educational tool. 6,[8][9][10] One study recognized that the tabletop exercise helped identify gaps in the content of the nursing program, specifically the medical-surgical courses that prepared students for disaster management. 5 Three studies identified that the tabletop exercise improved the students' knowledge and attitudes of disaster planning based on pre-and postexercise coursework.…”

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An Unfolding Tabletop Simulation Training Exercise on Disaster Planning for Nursing Students

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A disaster is a high-stakes, low-frequency event that health care providers need to be prepared for at a moment's notice. Disaster readiness is an expected essential competency for new graduates and nurses in practice. 1 Throughout the history of disasters, nurses have been involved in each phase of disaster management, including mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. 2 The impact of climate change, global terrorism, growing domestic civil unrest, and the emergence of new infectious disease pandemics suggests that the burden of caring for victims of disasters will continue to increase for health care systems. 3 The ability of the United States to appropriately respond to any disaster or public health emergency depends on the knowledge and skills of a national nursing workforce that can mobilize promptly. 4 The COVID-19 pandemic further highlighted the need for coordinated and efficient disaster response.The foundation of an effective disaster response starts in nursing education, making these skills critical components to incorporate into the curriculum. A tabletop simulation training strategy is an interactive, low-stress, no-fault strategy in which students have an assigned role and use their knowledge to solve problems. 5 This strategy provides nursing students with a classroom-based clinical experience that allows them to work through a problem instead of simply hearing and talking about it. Study results have indicated that tabletop exercises designed for senior nursing students provided good knowledge transfer from fundamental nursing courses to novel situations and promoted evidence-based judgments and critical thinking. 6 This finding emphasizes the significance of providing nursing students with realistic experiences that will better prepare them for clinical practice and potential mass casualty incidents after graduation. Conceptual FrameworkKolb's Experiential Learning Theory was the conceptual framework used to support tabletop simulation training as an effective learning strategy in nursing education. The theory consists of a 4-part learning cycle: concrete

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“…5 Three studies identified that the tabletop exercise improved the students' knowledge and attitudes of disaster planning based on pre-and postexercise coursework. [8][9][10] Tabletop Disaster Planning Exercise…”

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“…It systematically investigates and indicates how well the exercise met its objectives. It also determines the strengths and weaknesses of the disaster exercise program [ 10 , 13 ].…”

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“…Many financial resources are spent in the health sector on disaster preparedness exercises. As there is no plan to control such exercises and they are not evaluated accurately to identify the strengths of organizations executing exercises, macro targeting and perspectives on health system preparedness in unexpected events have not been achieved, and they have not been measured scientifically [ 13 , 19 ]. The above emphasizes the design and development of a comprehensive tool for evaluation of disaster exercises in the healthcare system in the exercise design phase to provide necessary protocols and instructions for evaluating disaster preparedness exercises.…”

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Developing and psychometric testing of the evaluation tool for disaster exercises design stage: A mixed method study

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Background Exercise in different health sectors is an important step in preparing programs for disaster risk management. The present study aimed to develop and validate a tool for evaluating disaster exercises during the design stage in the health sector. Methods This methodological study was conducted in two phases using an explanatory sequential mixed method approach. Semi-structured interviews with 25 disaster-related health professionals were conducted during the qualitative phase (item generation), and a systematic review was done to evaluate items pool of disaster exercises design stage tool. The quantitative phase (item reduction) assessed both face and content validity, as well as reliability using Cronbach’s alpha and intra-class correlation coefficient. Results At the first stage four main categories and eleven subcategories were extracted from the data, the main categories including "coordination, command and guidance of exercise", "hardware and software requirements of exercise ", "organizational exercise resources", and "communication and exercise public information". The initial items pool included 164 items that were reduced to 50 after the assessment of validity (face and content). Cronbach’s alpha (0.89) and intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC = 0.72) tests indicated that the tool is also reliable. Conclusion The research findings provide a new categorization perspective to understand the disaster exercises evaluation in the health sector. The existing 50-item tool can evaluate disaster exercises design stage in the health sector through collecting data with appropriate validity and reliability.

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“…These disasters are the evidence of the country’s high vulnerability to such events (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana Aceh/National Board for Disaster Management of Aceh, 2015). Disasters cause physical harm, injury, disability, death of humans and economic problems, therefore, all elements of society have an important role to play before, during and after an incident (Bazyar et al , 2020; Husna et al , 2020b). However, Husna et al (2020c) argued that even though such incidents occur periodically, the preparedness of the community, government and disaster management agencies in responding to a disaster remains inadequate.…”

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Disaster preparedness among disaster management agency officers: a study from rural and urban areas in Aceh, Indonesia

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the preparedness of disaster mitigation agency officers in both urban and rural areas as high vulnerability zones in Aceh, Indonesia, in dealing with disasters. Design/methodology/approach This cross-sectional study adopted a conceptual framework from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and United Nations of Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)/International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) (LIPI-UNESCO/ISDR, 2006), explaining the study of community preparedness in anticipating earthquake and tsunami disasters. The framework of the study consists of five disaster preparedness parameters, namely, knowledge and attitude to face disasters, policies and guidelines, emergency response plans, disaster early warning systems and mobilization of resources. This conceptual framework was developed after the 2004 tsunami through an analysis study in the three provinces in Indonesia (Aceh, Padang and Bengkulu) experiencing earthquakes and tsunamis. This conceptual framework serves as a guideline and is in line with the objective of the regional disaster management Agency to reduce disaster risk through increasing community preparedness, especially providers or officers in anticipating disasters. Findings There was a significant difference in disaster preparedness among officers from the urban and rural areas. The area size, location accessibility, the communication network and disaster detection and warning facilities could associate with the results. Research limitations/implications The respondents were selected from only two districts in Aceh Province, Indonesia, which are vulnerable to disasters. The study only identifies the disaster preparedness among disaster management agency officers (DMAOs) adopted from LIPI-UNESCO/ISDR about community preparedness in anticipating disasters particularly tsunami and earthquake. Therefore, the results of this study may have limited generalizability to other areas in Indonesia and beyond. Practical implications The results of this study could possibly serve as recommendations for policymakers and disaster management agencies, particularly in rural areas to prepare contingency plans that involve both internal and external institutions to arrange the regulations related to community-based emergency response plans and disaster early warning systems. Such programs of education, training and disaster drill needed to be in place and conducted regularly for the officers in a rural area. Finally, the other sub-scales showed no difference in disaster preparedness, however, collaboration and support to each other in disaster risk reduction plan by improving the capacity building, policy enhancement and disaster management guidelines are required. Also, attempts to optimize logistics adequacy, budget allocations and disaster preparedness education and training for both DMAOs are strongly recommended through the lens of the study. The results of the study might useful for further research that could be developed based on this current study. Originality/value The emergency response plans and disaster early warning systems were significantly different between the rural and urban officers in disaster preparedness. Attending disaster management programs, experiences in responding to disasters and the availability of facilities and funds could be considered in ascertaining the preparedness of officers to deal with disasters.

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Does Tabletop Exercise Enhance Knowledge and Attitude in Preparing Disaster Drills?

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

An Unfolding Tabletop Simulation Training Exercise on Disaster Planning for Nursing Students

An Unfolding Tabletop Simulation Training Exercise on Disaster Planning for Nursing Students

Developing and psychometric testing of the evaluation tool for disaster exercises design stage: A mixed method study

Disaster preparedness among disaster management agency officers: a study from rural and urban areas in Aceh, Indonesia

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