Evaluation of an instrument to measure nurses' familiarity with emergency preparedness

Military Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1073-1077

  Garbutt, Susan J ^a   Peltier, James W ^b   Fitzpatrick, Joyce J ^c  

^a Galen School of Nursing   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CURRICULUM; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES EDUCATION; EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS INFORMATION QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INSTRUMENT; MEASUREMENT; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY NURSING; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING KNOWLEDGE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; SOLDIER;

EID: 56049119382     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.173.11.1073     Document Type: Article

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