Self-Assessed Emergency Readiness and Training Needs of Nurses in Rural Texas

Abstract

Licensing agencies, professional organizations, and community constituencies may need to play a stronger role in improving the bioterrorism-related emergency preparedness of rural nurses.

Nurses Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices and Familiarity Regarding Disaster and Emergency Preparedness – Saudi Arabia

“…A crucial first step toward designing well written, comprehensive, emergency preparedness curricula is to assess training needs. Additional studies using the revised EPIQ should provide data to assist nurse educators in the development of competency-based, relevant, emergency preparedness curricula [23][24][25][26][27].…”

“…A comprehensive knowledge, skills, proficiencies, and the necessary measures in respond to cases such as natural disasters, man-provoked events, chemical, nuclear, biological and explosive cases were included [14]. Nevertheless, there is no specified degree in crisis nursing and there are just short term educational courses [15].…”

“…Practices currently taking place included questions about disaster drills done at their healthcare setting, what type of drills is done, ongoing training, how often, disaster plan update and how often developed by [14].…”

“…Attitudes checklist about disaster planning consisted of eleven item categorized as agree, disagree and unsure adopted from [14] with some modifications done to suit the present study.…”

“…Knowledge questionnaire on disaster preparedness consisted of 47 objective questions; MCQ and T & F derived from [13][14], covered questions about disaster management and preparedness. Each question categorized as correct=1 and incorrect=0…”