Hospital staff readiness for disaster medical support

Hospital Disaster Readiness : Why Are We Unprepared ?

Hospital Medical Staff Privileges

Disaster Preparedness: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Hospital Staff

Background: A disaster, as a serious disruption in the functioning of society, may cause extensive damage. Following a disaster, the demand for healthcare increases, and people rush to healthcare centers. In such situations, health staff and medical services play an important role. As a result, people’s knowledge, attitude, and practice toward disaster preparedness in the workplace play an impo...

Perceived readiness for hospital discharge in adult medical-surgical patients.

PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to identify predictors and outcomes of adult medical-surgical patients' perceptions of their readiness for hospital discharge. DESIGN A correlational, prospective, longitudinal design with path analyses was used to explore relationships among transition theory-related variables. SETTING Midwestern tertiary medical center. SAMPLE 147 adult medical-surgi...

Advanced trauma life support training for hospital staff.

BACKGROUND Injury is responsible for an increasing global burden of death and disability. As a result, new models of trauma care have been developed. Many of these, though initially developed in high-income countries (HICs), are now being adopted in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). One such trauma care model is advanced trauma life support (ATLS) training in hospitals, which is being pr...