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Guest speaker for the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Disaster Response Services, Brisbane, Queensland, 10th August.
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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
linkedin.com/in/jamieranseImg: http://www.city.natori.miyagi.jp/en/image/DSC_5241.jpg
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