DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
PLoS One. 2024 Apr 18;19(4):e0300536. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300536. eCollection 2024.
Nurses' household preparedness is critical if they are to avoid role conflict and report for duty during an emergency. To date, the alignment between nurses' perceived and actual household preparedness remains under examined. Investigating one of these variables in isolation fails to consider that perceived and actual household preparedness must be high and aligned. If misaligned, vulnerabilities could surface during emergencies, like concerns about family safety, potentially impacting a nurse's commitment to duty during a crisis, or nurses may lack the actual preparedness to continue working long hours during an emergency. An online questionnaire was distributed to registered nurses in Ireland. The questionnaire was informed by a review of the literature and captured nurses' perceived and actual household preparedness, attitudes towards and exposure to a range of emergencies, and pertinent demographic characteristics. The results showed a relationship between how nurses view their household preparedness and their actual preparedness. Regression analyses indicate that while there is an overlap, the factors associated with how prepared nurses think they are and how prepared they are can differ. This means that strategies to boost actual preparedness may differ from those needed to boost perceived preparedness. This finding underscores the importance of psychosocial preparedness. Feeling prepared is crucial as it can influence how one responds in an emergency. Considering both the perceived and actual aspects of household preparedness can lead to a more effective response during emergencies.
如果护士要避免在紧急情况下出现角色冲突并报到上班，那么他们的家庭准备情况至关重要。迄今为止，护士的感知和实际家庭准备情况之间的一致性仍未得到充分研究。单独研究这些变量之一，无法考虑到感知和实际家庭准备情况必须是高且一致的。如果不匹配，在紧急情况下可能会出现脆弱性，例如对家庭安全的担忧，这可能会影响护士在危机期间的履职承诺，或者护士可能缺乏在紧急情况下长时间工作的实际准备。一项在线问卷被分发给爱尔兰的注册护士。该问卷是根据文献综述编写的，涵盖了护士的感知和实际家庭准备情况、对一系列紧急情况的态度和暴露情况以及相关人口统计学特征。结果表明，护士对自己家庭准备情况的看法与其实际准备情况之间存在关系。回归分析表明，虽然存在重叠，但与护士认为自己准备程度和实际准备程度相关的因素可能不同。这意味着，提高实际准备程度的策略可能与提高感知准备程度的策略不同。这一发现强调了心理社会准备的重要性。有备感是至关重要的，因为它会影响一个人在紧急情况下的反应方式。考虑家庭准备情况的感知和实际方面，可以在紧急情况下做出更有效的反应。
