ISSUES IN DISASTERS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Jamie RanseAssistant Professor

University of Canberra

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overview

• Define disaster• Willingness• Ability• Education• Resources• Role• Other ‘things’

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disaster definition

disaster definition

• Cyclone Tracy, 1974• Granville train crash and bridge collapse, 1977• Ash Wednesday, 1983• Newcastle earthquake, 1989• Canberra bushfires, 2003• Black Saturday and Victorian bushfires, 2009• Pandemic (H1N1), 2009• Queensland and Victorian extreme weather events, 2011

disaster definition

• SARS outbreak, 2003 • Indian Ocean tsunami, 2004 • Bali bombings, 2005 • Java earthquake, 2006 • Yogyakarta air crash, 2007 • SIEV explosion Ashmore Reef, 2009 • Pacific tsunami, 2009 • Pakistan floods, 2010 • SIEV sinking Christmas Island, 2010 • Christchurch Earthquake, 2011

willingness

ability

• Undergraduate• In-service• Post-graduate

education

aim

Describe the disaster content in post-graduate emergency nursing programs in Australia

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method

• Descriptive and exploratory• Tertiary emergency nursing programs in 2009• Course convenors • Structured telephone interviews

Questions• Convenor• Disaster content• Changes

results: course content overview

Graduates• 32 per year, per course (9 – 80)

Course delivery• Face-to-face, online, blended and self-directed

Content related to disasters• Yes: 7 (70%)• No: 3 (30%)

results: disaster content overview

Elements of disaster content in courses:Community and public health responsePre-hospital responseHospital responseDisaster triageSustainabilityDisaster exercisesIncident systemsNursing role in disasterCommunications TechniquesManagement of the dead and dyingDisaster plansRole of other organisations in disaster responseMental health in relation to disastersPopulations with specific needsTypes of disastersExamples of disastersHealth effects of disasters

discussion

• Convenors experience varies• Disaster not discussed in all programs• Disaster content varied in all programs

• Undergraduate• In-service• Post-graduate• Others• Competencies• Educational preparedness

education

resources

• Disasters happen out of hours• ‘Pack the car full’• Defence

role

project 1: results

mock disaster type

project 1: results

roles

project 2: results

role

role

other ‘things’

• Volunteering• Disaster tourists• Government / registered NGO? • Your employer• A list? • Response versus recovery

ISSUES IN DISASTERS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Jamie RanseAssistant Professor

University of Canberra

www.jamieranse.com

twitter.com/jamieranse

youtube.com/jamieranse

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