An Important Concept of Protecting Public Health in Disaster Situations: Disaster Nursing
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE JOURNAL OF NURSING-FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE HEMSIRELIK DERGISI, cilt.23, sa.1, ss.57-65, 2015 (ESCI, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
- Cilt numarası: 23 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2015
- Doi Numarası: 10.17672/fnhd.34589
- Dergi Adı: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE JOURNAL OF NURSING-FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE HEMSIRELIK DERGISI
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.57-65
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Since Florence Nightingale, nurses have undertaken a variety of roles in disaster management with their evaluation making skills, prioritization, communication, cooperation and critical thinking skills. Therefore, nurses are held responsible for gaining necessary knowledge and skills in disaster management and to be prepared for possible disasters. Nurses whatever their area of expertise should know disaster management and should be entitled to take charge in all phases of disaster. In order that a disaster nurse can serve skillfully as expected, many issues are needed to be addressed such as his/her responsibilities, training, and scope of services, performing researches in the field of disaster nursing, etc. This requirement can be assessed as a key necessity in Turkey as well for the creation of the training infrastructure, terms of references definition and finding workspace in compliance with modern roles and function of nurses. In this study, the issue of disaster nursing which is important for public health is assessed, current situation is evaluated and recommendations are developed in line with the requirements mentioned above.