Determinants of Nurse Preparedness in Disaster Management: A Cross-Sectional Study Among the Community Health Nurses in Coastal Areas.
Etika EmaliyawatiKusman IbrahimYanny TrisyaniRistina MirwantiFitri Muthiara IlhamiHidayat ArifinPublished in: Open access emergency medicine : OAEM (2021)
With nearly half of the respondents (45.77%) having a low level of disaster preparedness, this topic needs more attention from the government and healthcare workers. Several actions are needed to improve community nurses' disaster preparedness: providing them with routine disaster-related training, encouraging them to serve as volunteers in various disaster conditions, and offering them useful disaster-related information.