Identifying nurse managers education and training needs for disaster management in Saudi Arabia?
I.1) Background
There are evidences for increasing in the disaster numbers internationally (Yamashita & Kudo 2014). These disasters could be natural man made or combine of both types (Veenema 2012). Disasters in the last decades made significant negative impacts on economy health and social life of communities. So to cope with disasters training and education for disaster managers could play an important role to reduce the potential affects of disasters.
Previous researchs in many countries approved that healthcare providers are not well prepared for disasters. In more particular nurses managers who are the leaders for the largest groups among other healthcare providers in many health organisations. They may lack of knowledge and skills due to limited education and training opportunities (Hammad Arbon & Gebbie 2011). In Saudi Arabia the number of disasters has increased and had significant damages on the infrastructures and affected people health. Thus it is worthy to understand the effectiveness of education and training about disaster preparedness on nurses managers. This review will include all studies that include nurse managers as participants studies that are written either in Arabic or English. Therefore education and training needs for disaster nurse managers will be identified.
I.2) PICO Framework and Search strategies:
The scope of reviewing the existed literature to understand what is known and what is not known was based on PICO framework. Table 1.1 provides summary information on PICO framework. The keywords and their synonyms that identified previously in the PICO would be very significant and considered as the base for systematic searching of literature review. It further helped in viewing the initial search results. These keywords represent the major elements for the topic question like: Nurses Disaster nursing management Education Training and Saudi Arabia it will help in allocating some suitable resources and theories that are relevant and helpful in expanding our knowledge about the topic.
1.1 summary of PICO
PICO Patient or Population Intervention or Issue Comparison
Or Context Outcome
Item Emergency department nurse managers Education and training needs for disaster management Saudi Arabia
(Context)
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