Tener Goodwin Veenema1, Anne Griffin2, Alicia R Gable3, Linda MacIntyre4, Radm Nadine Simons5, Mary Pat Couig6, John J Walsh7, Roberta Proffitt Lavin8, Aram Dobalian9, Elaine Larson10. 1. Nu Beta, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Department of Community and Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. 2. Clinical Investigator and Senior Program Manager, Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center, Office of Public Health, Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, North Hills, CA, USA. 3. Senior Project Director, Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center, Office of Public Health, Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, North Hills, CA, USA. 4. Alpha Eta and Beta Alpha, Chief Nurse, American Red Cross, Washington, DC, USA. 5. Assistant Surgeon General and Regional Health Administrator, Region IX, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, San Francisco, CA, USA. 6. Program Manager/Emergency Preparedness, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Nursing Services (ONS), Special Projects and Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Washington, DC, USA. 7. Co-Director, Vanderbilt Program in Disaster Research and Training, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA. 8. Associate Dean for Academic Programs, University of Missouri-St. Louis, College of Nursing, St. Louis, MO, USA. 9. Director, Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center, Office of Public Health, Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, and School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles, North Hills, CA, USA. 10. Alpha Zeta, Associate Dean for Research and Anna C. Maxwell Professor of Nursing Research, Columbia University School of Nursing and Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University of Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To develop a vision for the future of disaster nursing, identify barriers and facilitators to achieving the vision, and develop recommendations for nursing practice, education, policy, and research. DESIGN AND METHODS: A series of semistructured conference calls were conducted with 14 national subject matter experts to generate relevant concepts regarding national nursing workforce preparedness. An invitational daylong workshop hosted by the Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, was held in December 2014 to expand and refine these concepts. Workshop participants included 70 nurses, emergency managers, and a broad range of public health professionals. Conference call notes and audiotapes of the workshop were transcribed and thematic analysis conducted to outline a vision for the future of nursing in disaster preparedness and response, and to articulate an agenda for nursing practice, education, policy, and research to achieve that vision. FINDINGS: The group developed a vision for the future of disaster nursing, and identified current barriers and opportunities to advance professional disaster nursing. A broad array of recommendations for nursing practice, education, policy, and research, as well as implementation challenges, are summarized in this article. CONCLUSIONS: This project represents an important step toward enhancing nurses' roles as leaders, educators, responders, policymakers, and researchers in disaster preparedness and response. Nurses and the health and human service organizations that employ them are encouraged to engage in an expansive national dialogue regarding how to best incorporate the vision and recommendations into their individual lives and the organizations for which they work. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Nurses comprise the largest healthcare workforce, and opportunities exist to strengthen disaster readiness, enhance national surge capacity, and build community resiliency to disasters.
PURPOSE: To develop a vision for the future of disaster nursing, identify barriers and facilitators to achieving the vision, and develop recommendations for nursing practice, education, policy, and research. DESIGN AND METHODS: A series of semistructured conference calls were conducted with 14 national subject matter experts to generate relevant concepts regarding national nursing workforce preparedness. An invitational daylong workshop hosted by the Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, was held in December 2014 to expand and refine these concepts. Workshop participants included 70 nurses, emergency managers, and a broad range of public health professionals. Conference call notes and audiotapes of the workshop were transcribed and thematic analysis conducted to outline a vision for the future of nursing in disaster preparedness and response, and to articulate an agenda for nursing practice, education, policy, and research to achieve that vision. FINDINGS: The group developed a vision for the future of disaster nursing, and identified current barriers and opportunities to advance professional disaster nursing. A broad array of recommendations for nursing practice, education, policy, and research, as well as implementation challenges, are summarized in this article. CONCLUSIONS: This project represents an important step toward enhancing nurses' roles as leaders, educators, responders, policymakers, and researchers in disaster preparedness and response. Nurses and the health and human service organizations that employ them are encouraged to engage in an expansive national dialogue regarding how to best incorporate the vision and recommendations into their individual lives and the organizations for which they work. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Nurses comprise the largest healthcare workforce, and opportunities exist to strengthen disaster readiness, enhance national surge capacity, and build community resiliency to disasters.
Authors: Mohammed Ali Salem Sultan; Jarle Løwe Sørensen; Eric Carlström; Luc Mortelmans; Amir Khorram-Manesh Journal: Healthcare (Basel) Date: 2020-10-29