This is a progress presentation delivered at the Flinders University of South Australia.

1. THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF AUSTRALIAN NURSES
WORKING IN DISASTER ENVIRONMENTS
www.jamieranse.com
Jamie Ranse, RN FRCNA
BN, GCClinEd, GCClinEpi MCritCarNurs, PhD (Candidate) twitter.com/jamieranse
youtube.com/jamieranse
Supervisors: Professor Paul Arbon, Dr Lynette Cusack, linkedin.com/in/jamieranse
and Dr Ramon Shaban

2. overview
• Background
• Research question
• Aim and objectives
• Method
• Progress

3. INTERNATIONAL
Australian participation: on-shore

4. NATIONAL participation: on-shore
Australian

5. Australian participation: on-shore
CYCLONE TRACY = DAYS
#CHCH #EQNZ = MINS

6. A HEALTH DISASTER?
Australian participation: on-shore

7. WHAT WILL YOUR
ROLE BE?

8. EDUCATION-PRACTICE
MISMATCH

9. WILL YOU ASSIST?

10. THANKS FOR
VOLUNTEERING

11. research question
• What is the lived experience of Australian civilian
registered general nurses (division 1), working in the
unfamiliar out-of-hospital disaster environment?

12. aim and objective
Aim
• Explore, describe and interpret the lived experience of
Australian civilian general registered nurses (division 1)
working in the out-of-hospital disaster environment
Objectives
• Explore the transferability of nurses experience between
the in-hospital and out-of-hospital disaster environment
• Explore the role of nurses in the out-of-hospital disaster
environment

13. method
Methodology
• Hermeneutic phenomenological
Participant recruitment
• Purposive
• Snowballing

14. method
Participant recruitment
• A nurse who primarily works as a clinician in the in-
hospital environment
• Has participated in the health response and/or recovery
to a disaster in the last five years
• Responded with a civilian (non-military) organisation,
association or group
• The response involved working in the out-of-hospital
environment

15. method
Data collection
• Semi-structured individual interviews at 2 points in time
Data analysis
• Thematic analysis
• Sententious approach

16. method
Protection of human participants
• Flinders University Social and Behavioural Human
Research Ethics Committee

17. progress

18. THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF AUSTRALIAN NURSES
WORKING IN DISASTER ENVIRONMENTS
www.jamieranse.com
Jamie Ranse, RN FRCNA
BN, GCClinEd, GCClinEpi MCritCarNurs, PhD (Candidate) twitter.com/jamieranse
youtube.com/jamieranse
Supervisors: Professor Paul Arbon, Dr Lynette Cusack, linkedin.com/in/jamieranse
and Dr Ramon Shaban