Disaster drill training is an important part of training to all nurses in order to prepare nurses to function effectively during real disaster. Nurses should understand the importance of disaster nursing will make them enables to take part in the stages of the process effectively related to disaster management. This study aims to assess the current status and identify nurses’ knowledge and practice for disaster drill training and how they acquired their knowledge about disaster preparation in KPJ Puteri Specialist Hospital. Quasi Experimental study was conducted in this study with one control group pre-test and post-test design. The sample collected by using stratified purposive sampling among registered nurses. The pre and post questionnaires were used for data collection. The target population and sample for this study is Registered Nurses working in KPJ Puteri Specialist Hospital. Target population and sample involved multidiscipline in KPJ Puteri Specialist Hospital Johor Bahru. The completed questionnaires were analyzed from demographic data, knowledge, nursing practices which are significant for this study by using Microsoft Excel and Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 25.0. The analyzed data used to present the results. The age mean score of the participant was 29.65 (S.D : 4.68), and the years of services mean score was 6.23 (S.D : 3.109). Most of the participant are from special care nursery. In the Knowledge part, pre-test with mean score was 52.63 (S.D : 7.735) and for posttest was 55.00 (S.D : 5.835). While the practices part, pre-test with mean score was 21.50 (S.D : 3.755) and the mean score for posttest was 22.88 (S.D : 2.729). The result for correlation for knowledge and practice was r = 0.674, which is large degree of correlation and p value is significant which is less than 0.05. The result for t-test was t(39)= 33.380, p<0.05 The data from the research study demonstrate an increasing and compliance result related to knowledge and practice among registered nurses on disaster drill training.
Keywords: Disaster Drill, Training, Knowledge, Practice, Nurses.
Disaster drill training is an important part of training to all nurses in order to prepare nurses to function effectively during real disaster. Nurses should understand the importance of disaster nursing will make them enables to take part in the stages of the process effectively related to disaster management. This study aims to assess the current status and identify nurses’ knowledge and practice for disaster drill training and how they acquired their knowledge about disaster preparation in KPJ Puteri Specialist Hospital. Quasi Experimental study was conducted in this study with one control group pre-test and post-test design. The sample collected by using stratified purposive sampling among registered nurses. The pre and post questionnaires were used for data collection. The target population and sample for this study is Registered Nurses working in KPJ Puteri Specialist Hospital. Target population and sample involved multidiscipline in KPJ Puteri Specialist Hospital Johor Bahru. The completed questionnaires were analyzed from demographic data, knowledge, nursing practices which are significant for this study by using Microsoft Excel and Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 25.0. The analyzed data used to present the results. The age mean score of the participant was 29.65 (S.D : 4.68), and the years of services mean score was 6.23 (S.D : 3.109). Most of the participant are from special care nursery. In the Knowledge part, pre-test with mean score was 52.63 (S.D : 7.735) and for posttest was 55.00 (S.D : 5.835). While the practices part, pre-test with mean score was 21.50 (S.D : 3.755) and the mean score for posttest was 22.88 (S.D : 2.729). The result for correlation for knowledge and practice was r = 0.674, which is large degree of correlation and p value is significant which is less than 0.05. The result for t-test was t(39)= 33.380, p<0.05 The data from the research study demonstrate an increasing and compliance result related to knowledge and practice among registered nurses on disaster drill training.
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