Overview
- Provides a research-based account of nurses’ contribution to disaster management in the Asia Pacific region
- Helps to assess and guide the work of nurses in the contexts of disaster preparedness, response and recovery
- Guides teachers and students in building disaster management competencies
- Contributes to developing research and policy on disaster nursing
- Empowers individual nurses and nurse organizations to become more involved
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor Hiroko Minami is an eminent nurse leader in Japan who has been working diligently for the advancement of nursing in Japan including education, service and research for more than 30 years. Prof. Hiroko Minami received her basic nursing education form Kochi Woman’s University, Japa
n. She later received the Master Degree in Public Health form Hebrew University, Israel, and Doctoral of Nursing Science Degree from University of California, San Francisco.She is the 2001 recipient of the Distinguished Alumna Award, the past President of the International Council of Nurses, and is currently President of the University of Kochi, Japan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Role of Nurses in Disaster Management in Asia Pacific
Editors: Sheila Bonito, Hiroko Minami
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41309-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41308-2Published: 01 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82320-1Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41309-9Published: 17 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 115
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nursing Management, Emergency Medicine, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Practice and Hospital Management, Primary Care Medicine, Public Health