The Effects of Disaster Awareness, Attitude, and Preparedness on the Basic Competencies of the Disaster Nursing Among the Nursing Students

Abstract

Abstract

A study on the types of disaster awareness in nursing students: Q methodology

“…Due to the severity of disasters that are increasing around the world, the role of nurses to patients in disasters is being emphasized, and the demand for improving the ability of nurses to respond to disasters is increasing [ 7 , 8 ]. Nursing capacity, which requires nurses to have knowledge and skills that are unique to disasters, is also required for nurses providing care during a disaster when they may have scarce resources and work in suboptimal environments during disaster situations [ 9 – 11 ]. Unlike clinical trials with well-equipped resources and well-trained nurses, most disaster sites are in suboptimal environments that require a response with limited resources and often in the absence of advanced systematic disaster safety preparedness education.…”

“…At a time when various data are needed to organize a systematic disaster preparedness curriculum, it is necessary to develop disaster awareness through systematic and appropriate training in undergraduate courses in order to respond with sufficient capacity to sudden disaster situations [ 9 , 17 ]. According to a study by Woo, et al [ 18 ], it is argued that disaster awareness should be started from undergraduate courses because disaster awareness is correlated with disaster preparedness.…”