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Disaster Relief Nurses: Exploring the Impetus to Respond to Multiple Efforts
Stacy E Christensen1, Linda Wagner2
1Professor of Nursing, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, USA.
Nursing Science Quarterly
|April 8, 2022
Summary
Nurses who volunteer for disaster relief repeatedly find personal rewards and opportunities for self-transcendence. Understanding these experiences helps support disaster nursing volunteerism.
Area of Science:
- Nursing
- Disaster Response
- Psychology
Background:
- The impact of disaster volunteerism on nurses is not well understood.
- Understanding repeat volunteerism is crucial for disaster preparedness and nursing support.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the experiences of nurses who volunteer for multiple disaster events.
- To identify the factors influencing nurses' decisions to return to disaster response.
Main Methods:
- Grounded theory methodology was employed.
- Semistructured interviews were conducted with 20 nurses who had participated in more than one disaster event.
Main Results:
- Key themes emerged: capacity for the art of nursing, confidence in role performance, fostering team cohesion amidst chaos, and humanistic symbiosis.
- These themes contributed to a core category: facilitating self-transcendence, guided by Reed's theory.
- Repeat deployments were associated with enhanced personal rewards and opportunities for self-transcendence.
Conclusions:
- Repeated disaster volunteerism offers nurses significant personal rewards.
- Facilitating self-transcendence is a key motivator for nurses engaging in repeated disaster response.
- Further research can inform support systems for disaster-experienced nurses.
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