The Effects of Disaster Awareness, Attitude, and Preparedness on the Basic Competencies of the Disaster Nursing Among the Nursing Students
AUTHORS
An-Sook Park,Department of Nursing, Jungwon University, Chungbuk, Korea
Jong-Hyun Yang,Department of Health Administration, Jungwon University, Chungbuk, Korea
ABSTRACT
This research intended to understand the influences of the awareness and the attitude regarding the disasters and the level of the preparedness regarding the disaster nursing of the nursing university students on the basic ability to carry out the disaster nursing. And it intended to secure the basic materials for the improvements of the nursing education and capabilities so that they possess the nursing capabilities that can cope with disasters. The subjects of the research were 228 students in the Department of Nursing at a university. 89.9% of the subject knew higher than normal about disasters. And, in this case, the basic ability to carry out disaster nursing was significantly high (F=15.45, P<0.001). The awareness of disaster had the significant amount of correlation with the attitude towards disaster (r=0.195, p<.001). The attitude had the significant amount of correlation with the level of the preparedness for disaster nursing (r=0.176, p<.001). And the level of the preparedness for disaster nursing had the significant amount of correlation with the basic ability to carry out disaster nursing (r=0.811, p<.001). It appeared that the factor that influences the basic ability to carry out disaster nursing was the level of the preparedness for disaster nursing. As a result of this research, in order to promote the ability to carry out disaster nursing of the nursing university students, the practice education with regard to which the students can practice by setting up a mock situation for concretizing the awareness that became higher regarding disaster into disaster nursing is needed. And an educational program which has been systematized by the academic year phase so that the preparation for the disaster nursing can be done more systematically is needed.
KEYWORDS
Disaster nursing, Awareness, Attitude, Preparedness, Nursing students
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