Charleen C. McNeill, PhD, MSN, RN, discusses key findings from a survey of nurses' emergency preparedness competence, the current state of emergency training, and what nurse leaders can do about it.

The coronavirus pandemic is a sudden, new threat to assisted living and skilled nursing homes — and those facilities already are under increasing threat from wildfire in California. A KQED ...

This piece is part of the DrexelNow series showcasing "A Day in the Class" for some of Drexel University's most interesting and impactful courses. In the control room before the quarterly Disaster ...

WASHINGTON - Tornado, hurricane or flood, nursing homes are woefully unprepared to protect frail residents in a natural disaster, government investigators say. Emergency plans required by the ...

CHESTER, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Undergraduate nursing students at Widener University tested how well they would respond to a natural disaster during a disaster simulation on Wednesday. It was held on ...

Sherrill Smith (center), dean of the UW Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, demonstrates for students the proper and improper methods of decontaminating a patient who has been exposed to radiation.

UW nursing students prepare to transport a manikin through an obstacle course to practice moving an injured person during recent disaster management leadership training. (UW Photo) The University of ...

Only a few months have passed since the Indonesian tsunami disaster occurred on December 26, 2004. The town of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, was reported to be one of the hardest hit areas. This month, 2 ...

The notable acceleration of global climate change is increasingly impacting healthcare, putting nurses on the frontlines of natural disaster relief more frequently than ever. Nurses play an essential ...

At least 11 people have reportedly died and over 30 have been injured in a fire at a nursing home in Bosnia. Smoke and flames then spread to the top floors of the so far unnamed building, Reuters ...

Government officials vastly undercounted the death toll among Florida nursing home residents after the destruction of Hurricane Irma in 2017, according to new research led by a Brown University ...

The coronavirus pandemic is a sudden, new threat to assisted living and skilled nursing homes — and those facilities already are under increasing threat from wildfire in California. A KQED ...