Registered nurses' experience as disaster preparedness coordinators during a major incident: A qualitative study.
Nurs Open
; 9(1): 329-338, 2022 01.
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ABSTRACT
AIMS:
To explore registered nurses' experiences as disaster preparedness coordinators of hospital incident command groups' during a major incident.DESIGN:
A qualitative descriptive design using semi-structured interview.METHODS:
This was a qualitative study based on one focus group discussion and six individual follow-up interviews. Participants were registered nurses in their capacity as disaster preparedness coordinators with experience from Major Incident simulations and a real-life Major Incident. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using content analysis. The COREQ checklist was used for reporting the findings.RESULTS:
The analysis of data generated the main category Expectations, previous experience and uncertainty affect hospital incident command group response during a Major Incident and three categories, (I) Gaining situational awareness (containing two subcategories), (II) Transitioning to management (containing three subcategories) and (III) Actions taken during uncertainty (containing two subcategories).Palavras-chave
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Ano de publicação:
2022
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