THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF AUSTRALIAN NURSES WORKING IN DISASTER ENVIRONMENTS

Supervisors: Professor Paul Arbon, Dr Lynette Cusack, and Dr Ramon Shaban

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Jamie Ranse, RN FRCNABN, GCClinEd, GCClinEpi MCritCarNurs, PhD (Candidate)

overview

• Background• Research question• Aim and objectives• Method• Progress

Australian participation: on-shoreINTERNATIONAL

Australian participation: on-shoreNATIONAL

Australian participation: on-shore

CYCLONE TRACY = DAYS#CHCH #EQNZ = MINS

Australian participation: on-shoreA HEALTH DISASTER?

WHAT WILL YOUR ROLE BE?

EDUCATION-PRACTICE MISMATCH

WILL YOU ASSIST?

THANKS FOR VOLUNTEERING

research question

• What is the lived experience of Australian civilian registered general nurses (division 1), working in the unfamiliar out-of-hospital disaster environment?

aim and objective

Aim• Explore, describe and interpret the lived experience of

Australian civilian general registered nurses (division 1) working in the out-of-hospital disaster environment

Objectives• Explore the transferability of nurses experience between

the in-hospital and out-of-hospital disaster environment• Explore the role of nurses in the out-of-hospital disaster

environment

method

Methodology• Hermeneutic phenomenological

Participant recruitment• Purposive• Snowballing

method

Participant recruitment• A nurse who primarily works as a clinician in the in-

hospital environment• Has participated in the health response and/or recovery

to a disaster in the last five years• Responded with a civilian (non-military) organisation,

association or group• The response involved working in the out-of-hospital

environment

method

Data collection• Semi-structured individual interviews at 2 points in time

Data analysis • Thematic analysis• Sententious approach

method

Protection of human participants• Flinders University Social and Behavioural Human

Research Ethics Committee

progress

THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF AUSTRALIAN NURSES WORKING IN DISASTER ENVIRONMENTS

Supervisors: Professor Paul Arbon, Dr Lynette Cusack, and Dr Ramon Shaban

www.jamieranse.com

youtube.com/jamieranse

twitter.com/jamieranse

linkedin.com/in/jamieranse

Jamie Ranse, RN FRCNABN, GCClinEd, GCClinEpi MCritCarNurs, PhD (Candidate)