Nursing education for disaster preparedness and response

Abstract

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. This article presents issues associated with providing nursing care under MCE circumstances of scarce resources and the educational needs of nurses to prepare them to effectively respond in these emergencies.

RAS ID

19409

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

2015

School

School of Nursing and Midwifery / Nursing, Midwifery and Health Services Research

Copyright

subscription content

Publisher

Slack Incorporated

Comments

Wilkinson, A.M., Matzo, M. (2015). Nursing education for disaster preparedness and response in Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 46(2), 65-73. Available here.

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Link to publisher version (DOI)

10.3928/00220124-20150126-01