Nurses Knowledge and Practices Regarding Disasters Management and Emergency Preparedness
Journal Title: Saudi Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 6
Abstract
Abstract: A disaster is an incident that can causes massive damage and destruption. Disasters arecommon worldwide event now a days. Nurses role are veryimportant in disaster management and its recovery. The purpose of this study was to assess the nurses' knowledge and practices Regarding disaster management and emergency preparedness. The objectives of this study was To assess the knowledge and determined the current practices of nurses in the emergency department and to identify the hospital specific plans regarding the disasters management. The Quantitative cross sectional study design was used in this study.semistractureQuestionnaire was used to collect the data. The questionnaires were administered by using convenient sampling. Data were statistically analyzed by descriptive criteria such as number, percentage, mean, median and standard deviation on SPSS version 21 and inferential statistics. Chi square test was used to check the relationship between the variable. The results of this study showed that Participant nurses have a good knowledge on disaster and its management. Overall good knowledge was 65.4%. However the practices were poor and overall poor practices were 83.3% so therefore it should be still need to do work on it. The conclusion of this study include that nurses knowledge about the disasters were good but practices were poor in the hospital setting. There is need to work on the practice and knowledge as well in these two hospital. The study revealed that hospitals currently have deficiencies in practices and management. Further, follow up research are necessary for maximizing nursing education and nursing quality. Keywords: Disasters, role of nurses, knowledge, practices, emergency preparedness,disaster management
Authors and Affiliations
Rehana Shabbir, Muhammad Afzal, Hajra Sarwer, Syed Amir Gilani, Ali Waqas
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