Relationships between disaster nursing competence, anticipatory disaster stress and motivation for disaster engagement.

ABSTRACT: Nurses are the largest group of healthcare providers and are often the first line responders to a disaster event. Nurses' disaster competence, motivation for disaster engagement, and factors that impact their motivation to respond to disaster events need to be understood. The purposes of the study were to determine the predictive relationships between Taiwanese nurses' disaster competence, anticipatory disaster stress, and motivation for disaster engagement. A cross-sectional design was used to analyze data collected between August 2017 and December 2017 from eight hospitals in southern Taiwan. Ninety participants who met the recruitment criteria completed and returned questionnaires with an 88.24% response rate. Data collection involved administering the Disaster Nursing Competence Questi

SUBMITTER: Liou SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7185501 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature