Different disasters and emergencies occur quickly and without warning. These disasters can be earthquakes, hurricanes, or thunderstorms. Surely these events will have negative consequences on the affected population. The severity of this phenomenon determines the consequences on people and their resources. These disasters can negatively affect your life.

Healthcare providers are a main key for community healthcare, nurses are the largest number of healthcare sector, they are the frontline for caring, their role extends from basic care such vital signs monitoring care to complex care such as taking care of severely injured and traumatized patients, and septic patients.  In addition, they provide psychological care for the patients and their families.  Usually, this care is provided with limited resources or in situations that make their work and duties more complicated and stressful such as wars and earthquakes. For this role, nurses must possess the knowledge and skill to improve their abilities in disaster management. The preparation for disasters is important and essential step toward caring for people and themselves.

The aim of this program is to establish a strong nursing preparedness in facing disasters, then moving toward other levels of disasters such as management.

Nizar Said

An-Najah National University