ICD-11 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Complex PTSD Among Hospital Medical Workers in China: Impacts of Wenchuan Earthquake Exposure, Workplaces, and Sociodemographic Factors.

Background: Previous studies address posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following disasters as a public health issue. However, few studies investigate the long-term effect of disaster exposure on PTSD among hospital medical workers (HMWs).

Objectives: This study aimed to study the prevalence of ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD (CPTSD) among exposed and non-exposed HMWs 11 years after the Wenchuan earthquake in China, to identify the factors associated with PTSD and CPTSD scores, and to examine the factor structures of PTSD and CPTSD models.

Volunteer nurses' learning experiences in Ludian County, Yunnan, China: Implication for public health nursing education in a disaster.

Objective: To describe the learning impacts made by graduate nurse volunteers who worked in a field hospital 1 month following the 2014 Ludian earthquake in Yunnan, China.

Methods: A qualitative descriptive approach was adopted. The volunteers were 23 final year part-time students enrolled in the Master of Science in Disaster Nursing program offered by the School of Nursing.

Development and evaluation of an undergraduate training course for developing International Council of Nurses disaster nursing competencies in China.

Background: Nurses are often called upon to play the role of first responder when disaster occurs. Yet the lack of accepted competencies and gaps in education make it difficult to recruit nurses prepared to respond to a disaster and provide assistance in an effective manner.

Design: Based on the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Framework of Disaster Nursing Competencies and Global Standards for the Initial Education of Professional Nurses and Midwives, a training course titled "Introduction to Disaster Nursing" was designed and implemented with 150 students.

Pilot training program for developing disaster nursing competencies among undergraduate students in China.

As nurses constitute the largest group of health-care providers, their readiness to respond to disasters and to participate in preparedness and disaster recovery activities will be significant for making a community more resilient against disaster. Concern is raised regarding how to build the capacity of all nurses with a knowledge base and a minimum set of skills in responding to various disasters. Drawing on the ICN Framework of Disaster Nursing Competencies and Global Standards for the Initial Education of Professional Nurses and Midwives, a training program entitled "Introduction to Disaster Nursing" was developed.

Evaluating the efficacy of an integrated curriculum on adolescent health and development for pre-service nursing education in Hong Kong.

Background: An integrated adolescent curriculum on health and development (ADH) was implemented in a pre-service nursing programme in a university.

Aim: This study examined the efficacy of an ADH curricular framework in improving the competency variables of student nurses in delivering ADH services.

Method: The design of the study was quasi-experimental with the systematically designed ADH training curriculum as an intervention.