2021 Volume 25 Issue 1 Pages 64-73
This study conducted an intervention for nursing managers of non-designated disaster hospitals to promote hospital disaster response plans and raise the awareness of disaster preparedness by providing disaster management information. A randomized controlled trial was performed to identify the effect of the intervention.
Participants who had expressed consent to the study participation were randomly divided into an intervention group (n = 17) and a control group (n = 18). Information was provided to the intervention group once every two weeks for three months (January 2020 to March 2020), a total of six times. The information was excerpted from the "Gensai" Calendar supported by Hiroo Disaster Management Group (HDMG), which is a small group training tool on disaster risk reduction and management.
The information topics in ascending order were as follows: "How to assemble staff in the event of a disaster?", "Thinking about how to contact the families of staff", "Accommodating a large number of injured! How to divide the facility into sections?", "Studying the manual!", "Encouraging staff to participate in desktop exercises in the event of an earthquake", and "Thinking about the kind of training that is necessary!".
As a result, "providing education on patient care in the event of a disaster (including doing triage and life-saving measures)" in the intervention group was the most statistically significant difference in the responses between before and after the information provision. This suggests that providing information may be effective in making nursing managers aware of the importance of providing educational material on nursing care in the event of a disaster.
