WHO Shandong Meeting October 2008, Shandong University

Innovative Emergency and Disaster Nursing Education and Training - United for Action

The goal of this meeting was to strengthen and sustain emergency and disaster nursing network membership, education and research through communication technologies, partnerships and evaluation progress. Specific meeting objectives were to:

  • Discuss and monitor network action plans, together with reviewing operational progress, including: updates on national experiences and responses; regional and global meetings and networks; core competencies and curricular domains; and gap analysis of necessary technical and financial resource mobilization;
  • Identify key strategies to expand network membership, web-page usage, collaboration and resource-sharing;
  • Implement pilot training, using the emergency and disaster nursing psychosocial health; initial trauma care; respiratory and other disease infection control pre-post disasters;
  • Develop national and regional education/training action plans and evaluation methods;
  • Plan next priority network action steps, including network meeting venue and dates.
Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.