This presentation outlined the findings of a research project that explored the type and amount of disaster content in postgraduate emergency nursing programs in Australia. In 2009, twelve Australian universities offered programs specific to emergency nursing. Of these, ten participated in this project.
The type and amount of disaster content varied between all Australian postgraduate emergency nursing programs. Some programs did not discuss disasters at all, whilst had discussions regarding disasters embedded within other course content. A number included disaster content as a stand-alone topic.
Commonly, content relating to disasters was delivered by the program convenor or an expert clinician. The type of delivery varied from didactic to workshop style presentations. This presentation outlined the need for consensus and consistency in the delivery of postgraduate studies, using disasters as the context to this discussion.
Ranse J, Arbon P, Shaban R, Considine J, Mitchell B, Lenson S. (2011). Disaster content varies in Australian postgraduate emergency nursing courses: Implications for educational preparedness; paper presented at the 17th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Beijing, China, 31st May.
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