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- Undergraduate nursing students’ competencies in disaster scenarios: from educational needs to curricula regulationPublication . Santos, Paulo Alexandre Figueiredo dos; Rabiais, Isabel Cristina Mascarenhas; Berenguer, Sílvia Maria Alves Caldeira; Amendoeira, José Joaquim PenedosBackground: Nurses play a central role in disaster preparedness, so appropriate disaster-related education is essential. However, almost all Portuguese undergraduate nursing curricula do not address disaster situations. Objective: To understand nursing schools’ contribution to developing undergraduate students’ knowledge and skills in disaster scenarios and the existing constraints on integrating this content into undergraduate nursing curricula. Methodology: A qualitative study with methodological triangulation, including interviews and focus group, was carried out to explore the perceptions of 35 nurse teachers and 6 nurses with experience in health care provision in disaster scenarios, about integrating disaster-related content into nursing curricula. Results: The study reveals that disaster management and preparedness should be integrated into undergraduate nursing education to guarantee the effective development and more objective regulation of students’ skills in this area. Conclusion: Portuguese nursing schools need to promote and develop undergraduate training in disaster preparedness and a more inclusive and objective regulation of this area.
- Historical professionalization movements: the relationship between social disasters and modern nursingPublication . Santos, Paulo Alexandre Figueiredo dos; Rabiais, Isabel Cristina Mascarenhas; Amendoeira, José Joaquim Penedos; Figueiredo, Amélia Simões; Berenguer, Sílvia Maria Alves Caldeira; Pereira, Maria Cristina Queiroz VazBackground: Nurses’ socio-professional affirmation becomes a reference in contexts of social disasters. Objective: To analyze the relationship between social disasters and the importance of the contribution of some nurses to designing/developing nursing as a profession at the end of the 19th century. Methodology: Although the methodological choices in the validation of the scientific nature of this historical study are based on historiography, the facts narrated and interpreted in this study were contextualized according to the historical period, which allowed the development of new meanings that define unities, totalities, series, and innovative relations within the documentary material itself. Results: Several nurses contributed to the development of nursing as a science. They practiced their profession in contexts with a common denominator: armed conflicts that translated into a scenario of social disaster, where the need to care for others was paramount. Conclusion: Contexts of social disasters unquestionably provided modern nursing with a field of action that brought it visibility and allowed its development as a discipline.