Challenges for Nurses in Disaster Management: A Scoping Review.

Autor: Harthi, Manal Al, Thobaity, Abdulellah Al, Ahmari, Waleed Al, Almalki, Mohammed
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Zdroj: Risk Management & Healthcare Policy; Nov2020, Vol. 13, p2627-2634, 8p
Abstrakt: To reduce the impact of disasters, healthcare providers, especially nurses, need to be prepared to respond immediately. However, nurses face several challenges in all phases of disaster management. The findings of a literature review based on scoping approaches, which utilized the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology, indicated that the major barriers facing nurses include the following: (1) disaster nursing is a new specialty; (2) inadequate level of preparedness; (3) poor formal education; (4) lack of research; (5) ethical and legal issues; and (6) issues related to nurses' roles in disasters. Educators, researchers, and stakeholders need to make efforts to tackle these issues and improve disaster nursing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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