Survey: Nurses need more emergency preparedness training
Some nurses do not feel adequately prepared to respond to emergencies, according to Charleen C. McNeill, PhD, RN, an associate professor at East Carolina University College of Nursing in Greenville, N.C. McNeill co-authored a study in the Journal of Nursing Administration, whichexamined nurses' self-reported levels of professional emergency preparedness competence. Few respondents reported familiarity with emergency preparedness competencies such as epidemiology, isolation and decontamination. McNeill would like to see these and other disaster nursing competencies formalized and evaluated in college and university curricula. (HealthLeaders Media article, 9/11/20)
