Enabling a Disaster ‐Resilient Workforce: Attending to Individual Stress and Collective Trauma

ConclusionsNurses working under the rapidly changing, uncontrolled, and potentially dangerous circumstances of a weather‐related disaster are also experiencing concerns about their families’ welfare and worries about personal loss. These multiple issues increase the psychosocial toll on nurses during a disaster response and impending recovery. Clinical RelevanceAwareness of concerns and competing demands nurses experience in a disaster and aftermath can inform education and services to enable nurses to perform their critical functions while minimizing risk to patients and themselves.
Source: Journal of Nursing Scholarship - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT Source Type: research