Strengthening and preparing: Enhancing nursing research for disaster management

Author(s)
Usher, Kim
Redman-MacLaren, Michelle L
Mills, Jane
West, Caryn
Casella, Evan
Hapsari, Elsi D
Bonita, Sheila
Rosaldo, Rommel
Liswar, Amelia K
Zang, Yuli
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
Nurses are often first line responders in a large scale emergency or disaster. This paper reports an evaluative study of a tailored research capacity building course for nurse delegates from the Asia Pacific Emergency and Disaster Nursing Network (APEDNN). Twenty-three participant delegates from 19 countries attended a three-week course that included learning and teaching about the critique and conduct of research. An outcome of the course was the collaborative design of a study now being implemented in a number of countries with the aim of investigating nurses' preparedness for disaster response. Formal mentoring relationships have also been established between more and less experienced peers and facilitators to provide support in implementing this collaborative study. Overall, participant delegates rated the planning, implementation and content of the course highly. Recommendations from this study include funding a mix of face-to-face and distance mentoring and writing for publication workshops to ensure the sustainability of outcomes from a research capacity building course such as the one described.
Citation
Nurse Education in Practice, 15(1), p. 68-74
ISSN
1873-5223
1471-5953
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Language
en
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd
Title
Strengthening and preparing: Enhancing nursing research for disaster management
Type of document
Journal Article
Entity Type
Publication

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