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Purpose: This presentation aims to analyze the status of disaster nursing education programs established in nurses’ continuing education, healthcare workers’ buildup programs, and degree education in Korea. Based on the analysis results, it proposes the future direction of disaster nursing education in Korea.
Approaches: The curriculum implemented for licensed nurses, healthcare workers, and nursing students in Korea was organized in chronological order. The operational status and main learning contents of were analyzed. Additionally, the adequacy and performance level of learning contents for nurse continuing education, were assessed based on the ICN core competencies in disaster nursing.
Findings: Nurse continuing education began in 2005 as part of the national disaster healthcare certification program for advanced practice nurses in Korea. Since 2010, the Korea National Medical Center has provided Korean-style integrated education for healthcare workers, and the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare has offered overseas disaster preparedness education followed. The number of schools that include disaster nursing in their bachelor’s degree programs has increased from 52.7% twenty years ago to 95% recently. However, very few nursing graduate schools offer disaster nursing as a subject. An analysis of the learning contents according to the ICN core competencies in disaster nursing showed that continuing education focused on preparedness and response nursing competencies. Learning achievement was measured after the course or before deployment through self-administered questionnaires using various self-developed measurement tools.
Implications: The role of the government in terms of national-level educational certification, the management of graduates/attendees, the measurement of prior competency before field deployment, and the development direction of measurement tools were discussed.
