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- Health care workers need to be ready for disasters, so a study looked at how training with simulation helps nursing students feel prepared.
- About 42.5% of the nursing students thought they were ready for disasters before the training, but their confidence improved after the simulation.
- The study found that practicing through simulations made nursing students feel more capable of handling disasters.
Article Abstract
Introduction: As disasters may occur any time, health care staff and institutions should be prepared to manage these events. The aim of study is to analyze the effects of high-fidelity simulation on the perceptions of senior nursing students regarding their preparedness for disasters.
Methods: This study used a pretest-posttest design and was conducted as a quasi-experimental investigation.
Results: Slightly less than the half of the students (42.5%) expressed that they were prepared to face a disaster. There was a statistically significant difference in their scores on the Scale of Perception of Disaster Preparedness among Nurses between the pre-intervention and postdisaster stage (p < 0.05).
Conclusion: Supporting simulation activities with drills positively affected nurses' perceptions of disasters.
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