The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Health Ethics Committee of Samar State University. Nurses’ rights were maintained through disclosure of the nature, benefits, and lack of known

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of the study. After the informed consent form was signed, the researchers dispersed the questionnaires at the respective sites and collected them in a sealed envelope upon completion. To maintain the confidentiality and anonymity of the nurses, code numbers, instead of their names, were used in the questionnaire.

Participants were informed about the purpose and the design of the study, and were assured that participation was voluntary and that confidentiality would be preserved. Before the data collection took place, participants had formally accepted and agreed to participate in the study by filling consent forms. One of the authors (Mirzabeigi) is General Director of the Iranian Nurses Organization (INO). The analysis of nursing programmes in a disaster situation is important for INO to plan for a more effective nursing response in the same potential situations. Permission for taperecording the interviews was obtained from each participant and recoded tapes stored in the first author’s office using anonymous labels.

Educational process, monitoring workshop participants, survey

After signing a consent form and receiving an introduction, participants completed the simulated weather scenario and the postscenario questionnaire.

Approval to conduct the proposed research was initially sought from individual department heads, Clinical Service Coordinators and Nurse Managers. Ethics approval was then gained from research committees representing each of the eight different sites.

Paper states, that ethical approval is not required.

Informed consent of participants

Experimental procedure was approved by the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee

The Saint Louis University Institutional Review Board approved this study (protocol # 23654).

Twenty-five residents agreed to partake in the training curriculum.The study protocol was approved by the University of Alberta Health Research Ethics Board.