APRN Education for Emergency Preparedness and All Hazards Response:
Resources and Suggested Content
A New Curriculum Resource for
NP, Nurse Anesthetist, Clinical Nurse Specialist, and Nurse Midwifery Education
Project Overview
In March 2007, NONPF convened a National Panel including representatives of APRN stakeholder organizations and additional content experts to identify curriculum content for APRN education relative to emergency preparedness. Funding received from the National Nurse Emergency Preparedness Initiative (NNEPI) at George Washington University supported the National Panel for a Washington, DC, meeting and conference calls to conducts its work of reviewing materials and identifying content resources for APRN curricula. By July 2007, the National Panel concluded its work with the completion of APRN Education for Emergency Preparedness and All Hazards Response: Resources and Suggested Content.
Document Description
The purpose of this document is to be a resource to APRN educators and is not meant to be prescriptive. It attempts to provide a framework that reviews the roles and opportunities for APRNs in all phases of disaster response: planning, event response, recovery, and mitigation. The organizing framework of the document is an adapted version of the “Emergency Response Clinician Competencies in Initial Assessment and Management,”nationally-vetted 11 clinician competencies currently promulgated by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in their use for evaluating Bioterrorism Training and Curriculum Development Program (BTCPD) sites. The National Panel has delineated suggested APRN educational broad concepts and considerations for development of content within the HRSA competencies framework. As well, the National Panel has developed a comprehensive list of Web-based resources available to support content development.
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Acknowledgments
NONPF wishes to thank all of the members of the National Panel and the stakeholder APRN organizations that participated in the project. A full list of the National Panel members is available as an appendix in the document. NONPF also wishes to recognize Dr. Janet Hale for her leadership in this project and her ongoing commitment to identifying curricular resources for APRNS on emergency preparedness. Dr. Hale and Dr. Leni Resick provided exemplary joint facilitation of the National Panel work. Finally, NONPF appreciates the support of NNEPI and The George Washington University Department of Nursing in funding the work of the National Panel.
Feedback Requested
The National Panel encourages users of the document to return feedback to the NONPF office. We welcome suggestions for additions, edits, new resources, and more for future updates to the document. In particular, we welcome comments on the relevance of the material included, the specificity of the content & resources, and the comprehensiveness of the document. Submit comments to nonpf@nonpf.org.
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President: Mary Anne Dumas, PhD, RN, CFNP, FAANP