AIM The purpose of this qualitative study is to provide an understanding of how Chinese nurses acted in response to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. BACKGROUND The literature has reported that Chinese nurses played a key role in the Wenchuan earthquake. Although these nurses' intentions were well meaning, and they made enormous efforts to save lives, they considered that disaster relief practice...

Introduction: One of the necessary features to confront the COVID-19 pandemic is performance and resilience which causes nursing managers to have a wider perspective based on preventing preparation and reaction to the disaster. This study aims to evaluate the nursing perspectives on nursing management during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Methods: One hundred eighty-nine Iranian nurses working in a Co...

The study purpose was to examine the reflections of the lived experiences of nurses in shelters or temporary community medical clinics responding for the first time to a civilian disaster. The disaster-nursing literature echoes the need for development of disaster content in the nursing curriculum. However, little thematic analysis-supporting curriculum from the lived experience of first-time r...

* Department of Environmental Medicine, Kochi University Medical School, Nankoku, Japan * * Service de Dermatologie, HopitalGénéral de Kinshasa, RépubliqueDémocratique du Congo ** * Centre hospitalierNdeko-Basile, Kinshasa, RépubliqueDémocratique du Congo **** Department of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthata, South Africa ***** Disaster Nursing Global Leader doctoral Program (DNG...

The rapid development of technology has made enormous volumes of data available and achievable anytime and anywhere around the world. Data scientists call this change a data era and have introduced the term "Big Data", which has drawn the attention of nursing scholars. Nevertheless, the concept of Big Data is quite fuzzy and there is no agreement on its definition among researchers of different...

1Department of Nursing, University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2Sina Trauma and Surgical Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Department of Health in Emergency and Disaster , School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Department of Nursing, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch, ...