The Role of Nursing in Crises and Disasters in Health Facilities

Abstract

KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) is prone to certain crisis and disasters in the form of earthquakes, uncontrollable sand storms, epidemics, terrorist attacks, etc. in these condition the rescue teams, medical staff, healthcare staff, etc. are required to respond. Also, with these people nurses are also required to be engaged, moreover maximum pressure is being born by nurses in the medication process, most of the times (during crisis) they have to attend the patients in the field which is again a risky process. Most of the developed and developing countries are working on the training of their health workers to prepare them for the conditions of crisis and disasters. This paper evaluates the role of nurses during the crisis period, this study is based on primary data and evaluates the collected data using one-way ANOVA.