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Emergency Preparedness
New findings from S.J. Garbutt and co-authors describe advances in emergency preparedness
January 6th, 2009
"The events of September 11, 2001, and the 2005 devastation of Hurricane Katrina have emphasized the importance of educating all nurses in emergency preparedness and bioterrorism," scientists writing in the journal Military Medicine report. "Further evaluation (secondary data analysis) of the Emergency Preparedness Information Questionnaire (EPIQ) was conducted, to assess nurses' familiarity with emergency preparedness. This study confirmed that the EPIQ, as revised, has sound psychometric characteristics (construct validity and internal reliability) as a tool to measure nurses' self-reported level of familiarity with emergency preparedness," wrote S.J. Garbutt...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-01-06)
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