Publication Findings
Disaster Preparedness in Philippine Nurses.

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 of the study. After the 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.

Earthquake relief: Iranian nurses’ responses in Bam, 2003, and lessons learned.

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 situation is important for INO to plan for a more effective nursing 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.

Educating the Next Generation to Respond to a Bioterrorism Event.

Educational process, monitoring workshop participants, survey

Emergency Management Decision Making during Severe Weather.

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

Emergency nurses and disaster response: An exploration of South Australian emergency nurses’ knowledge and perceptions of their roles in disaster response.

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.

Evaluating the effectiveness of an emergency preparedness training programme for public health staff in China.

Paper states, that ethical approval is not required.

Health worker and policy-maker perspectives on use of intramuscular artesunate for pre-referral and definitive treatment of severe malaria at health posts in Ethiopia.

of participants

How Simple Hypothetical-Choice Experiments Can Be Utilized to Learn Humans’ Navigational Escape Decisions in Emergencies.

Experimental procedure was approved by the Monash University Human Committee

Impact of an Education Intervention on Missouri K-12 School Disaster and Biological Event Preparedness.

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

Increasing emergency medicine residents' confidence in disaster management: use of an emergency department simulator and an expedited curriculum.

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

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