Open Access<p>Challenges for Nurses in Disaster Management: A Scoping Review</p>
Author(s) -
Manal Al Harthi,
Abdulellah Al Thobaity,
Waleed Al Ahmari,
Mohammed Almalki
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
risk management and healthcare policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.828
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1179-1594
DOI - 10.2147/rmhp.s279513
Subject(s) - preparedness , nursing , specialty , disaster preparedness , medicine , emergency management , health care , political science , family medicine , law
To reduce the impact of disasters, healthcare providers, especially nurses, need to be prepared to respond immediately. However, nurses face several challenges in all phases of disaster management. The findings of a literature review based on scoping approaches, which utilized the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology, indicated that the major barriers facing nurses include the following: (1) disaster nursing is a new specialty; (2) inadequate level of preparedness; (3) poor formal education; (4) lack of research; (5) ethical and legal issues; and (6) issues related to nurses' roles in disasters. Educators, researchers, and stakeholders need to make efforts to tackle these issues and improve disaster nursing.