Healthcare worker competencies for disaster training.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although training and education have long been accepted as integral to disaster preparedness, many currently taught practices are neither evidence-based nor standardized. The need for effective evidence-based disaster training of healthcare staff at all levels, including the development of standards and guidelines for training in the multi-disciplinary health response to major events, has been designated by the disaster response community as a high priority. We describe the application of systematic evidence-based consensus building methods to derive educational competencies and objectives in criteria-based preparedness and response relevant to all hospital healthcare workers.

Methods

The conceptual development of cross-cutting competencies incorporated current ev

SUBMITTER: Hsu EB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1471784 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature