Challenges of Disaster Nursing
Disaster nursing is one of the
riskiest nursing departments in my opinion. Because the environment where you
work and intervene is not a hospital, and the airn is to maximize the health of
the community affected by the disaster.
Disaster nursing does not work
alone as it intervenes in life-threating situations. However, disaster nursing
is not only obliged to provide emergency care and first aid service after
disasters and the necessity to take part in every stage of disaster management
has made disaster nursing a specialty on its own.
While all these are happening,
health nurses who intervene in disaster have effects on mental healt as much as
the scoiety is affected. Intervening in disaster victims, listening to the
event with all its detalis, seeing a large number of people die, and inability
to meet the health needs of hundreds of people can cause secondary
traumatization in nurses. For this reason, standard precautions should be
applied fort he protection of mental health for nurses who intervene in
disaster.
These are just a few of the
challenges of disaster nursing.
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