Nursing and Health Care

Disaster and emergency nursing

Disaster and Emergency Nursing play in emergency preparedness and disaster management in local and international settings. Areas of focus include the role in planning, partnerships, disaster response, and delivery of services. They'll help to develop a concept including the essential elements of leadership and management for nursing in disaster prevention, preparedness, response and recovery; explain the concept of a secure hospital in disaster and therefore the safe hospital index; analyze strategies for investing during a disaster informed nursing workforce within local and international settings; evaluate the resources available to increase the resilience of the nursing workforce in disaster; identify when community resilience is compromised and what is needed to make that resilience; analyze the competing problems with core competencies, expanded scope of practice and ethical practice within the context of response for nurses; conceptualise the worth of using a disaster research framework for a research study of a mass casualty incident; identify the special needs of vulnerable populations in disaster situations.