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Research Issues for Nursing and Midwifery Contributions in Emergencies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2011

Elizabeth Weiner
Elizabeth Weiner*
Affiliation:
Senior Associate Dean for Informatics, Professor, Nursing and Biomedical Informatics; Associate Director, Nursing Emergency Preparedness Education Coalition (formerly the International Nursing Coalition for Mass Casualty Education), Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee USA
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Correspondence: Betsy Weiner, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN Frist Nursing Informatics Center461 21st Ave. S.Nashville, Tennessee 37240 USA E-mail: Betsy.Weiner@vanderbilt.edu
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Abstract

This special report was prepared as a white paper for the First World Health Organization (WHO) Consultation on Nursing and Midwifery Contributions in Emergencies held in Geneva on 22–24 November 2006. Pertinent issues related to research of nurses and midwives were identified based on prior international conferences. Using this information, gaps between the current and proposed state of preparedness research activities were identified. Global perspective recommendations were made for consideration by the WHO and other nursing organizations. Finally, possible discussion questions were posed that were used during the consultation, but could also be used in other international nursing conferences.

Keywords

disaster nursingemergency nursing researchemergency responsenursing researchnursing research collaboration
Type
Original Research
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 109 - 113
Copyright
Copyright Weiner © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2011

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