A Delphi Study for Development of Disaster Nursing Education Contents in Community Health Nursing

Abstract

Purpose: This study was conducted to develop the contents of disaster nursing education in community healthnursing at universities. Methods: To validate contents, the Delphi method was used. We categorized twodomains(indirect disaster management and direct disaster management) and developed 48 draft items. This studyapplied two round surveys and 23 experts participated in this study. The content validity was calculated using contentvalidity ratio and coefficient of variation. Results: Indirect disaster management domain was composed of threecategories including 12 items: 1) Understanding of the disaster, 2) disaster management system, and 3) responseby disaster stage and recovery. Direct disaster management domain was composed of nine categories including30 items: 1) Ethical considerations, 2) communication in disasters, 3) nursing activity by disaster stage, 4) emergencynursing in disasters, 5) patient severity classification in disasters, 6) disaster nursing for vulnerable groups, 7) disasternursing for victims, 8) psychosocial nursing and health in disasters, and 9) cases of disaster nursing in communities.Conclusion: This Delphi study identified the contents of disaster nursing education curriculum, and confirmed thevalidity for disaster education program in community health nursing. Based on the results, it will be helpful for trainingthe disaster nursing and improving the competency on disaster nursing of the nursing students.