Date: November New Zealand
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey
The APEDNN 2010 meeting aim was to enable nurses, facilities and communities to improve trauma and disaster systems of care in partnership with other professions, stakeholders and communities, through research, capacity-building and policy development.
Its expected outcomes were that by the end of the meeting and capacity-building workshops, participants would have:
- Identified key variables and interventions to improve trauma and disaster care;
- Discussed and finalized the APEDNN conceptual framework;
- Identified lessons learned from recent disasters to strengthen national, local, institutional trauma care and disaster preparedness and response;
- Demonstrated new knowledge and/or skills in selected aspects of participatory learning approaches and technical areas of trauma care, quality improvement, disasters;
- Agreed upon shared methods to promote research around emergency-disaster nursing and quality improvement; and
- Formulated sub-regional and national action plans focused core capacity-building course and accompanying research, monitoring, evaluation and reporting (2011 onward).
- Future impact: The concept can be applied across the region to ensure when natural disasters occur nursing staff are correctly skilled and well prepared to deal with the emergency.
By the end of the meeting and capacity-building workshops, participants:
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills in selected aspects of participatory learning approaches and technical content of at least one of the following emergency/disaster courses, i.e. Psychosocial health and disasters; Epidemiology, Disasters and Emerging Diseases; and Trauma, Triage and Wound Care; Reproductive health and disasters; Infection Control.
- Formulated sub-regional annual action plans for policy and planning, monitoring and evaluation, research, capacity-building, and/or other work, utilizing tools for action planning and policy-making and evaluation.
The concepts learnt can be applied across the region to ensure when natural disasters occur nursing staff are correctly skilled and well prepared to deal with the emergency.
Asian Pacific Emergency Disaster Nursing Network (opens an external site)
View the photos from the meeting on Flickr.