Strengthening and preparing: enhancing nursing research for disaster management.
Nurses are often first line responders in a large scale emergency or disaster. This paper reports an evaluative study of a tailored research capacity building course for nurse delegates from the Asia Pacific Emergency and Disaster Nursing Network (APEDNN). Twenty-three participant delegates from 19 countries attended a three-week course that included learning and teaching about the critique and conduct of research. An outcome of the course was the collaborative design of a study now being implemented in a number of countries with the aim of investigating nurses' preparedness for disaster response. Formal mentoring relationships have also been established between more and less experienced peers and facilitators to provide support in implementing this collaborative study. Overall, participant delegates rated the planning, implementation and content of the course highly. Recommendations from this study include funding a mix of face-to-face and distance mentoring and writing for publication workshops to ensure the sustainability of outcomes from a research capacity building course such as the one described.
University of New England, Armidale, Australia. Electronic address: kim.usher@jcu.edu.au.
Kim
K
Usher
School of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University (Cairns Campus), Australia. Electronic address: michelle.maclaren@jcu.edu.au.
Michelle L
ML
Redman-MacLaren
Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia. Electronic address: Jane.mills@jcu.edu.au.
Jane
J
Mills
School of Nursing, Midwifery & Nutrition, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia; Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia. Electronic address: caryn.west@jcu.edu.au.
Caryn
C
West
Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia. Electronic address: evan.casella@my.jcu.edu.au.
Evan
E
Casella
School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Universities of Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Electronic address: elsi@gadjahmada.edu.
Elsi D
ED
Hapsari
University of Philippines Open University, Philippines. Electronic address: bonito_sheila@yahoo.com.
Sheila
S
Bonita
Western Mindanao State University Philippines, Philippines. Electronic address: rommelrosaldo@gmail.com.
Rommel
R
Rosaldo
University of Indonesia, Indonesia. Electronic address: A_kur@yahoo.com.
Amelia K
AK
Liswar
Shandong University, China. Electronic address: yulizh@sdu.edu.cn.
Yuli Amy
YA
Zang
D001208:Asia; D004189:Disaster Planning; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000193:education*; D012107:Research Design
Disaster management; Education; Research; Training