Citation

Smith SJ, Farra SL. Nurs. Clin. North Am. 2016; 51(4): 555-568.

Affiliation

College of Nursing and Health, Wright State University, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, OH 45435, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.cnur.2016.07.008

PMID

27863573

Abstract

As the largest profession of health care providers, nurses are an integral component of disaster response. Having clearly delineated competencies and developing training to acquire those competencies are needed to ensure nurses are ready when disasters occur. This article provides a review of nursing and interprofessional disaster competencies and development of a new interprofessional disaster certification. An overview of a standardized disaster training program, the National Disaster Health Consortium, is provided as an exemplar of a competency-based interprofessional disaster education program.

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Language: en