February 18, 20130 comments
Press Release ? CPIT
CPIT Nursing study on earthquake response highly commended
National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence, AKO Aotearoa has highly commended a study of CPIT staff responses to the February 2011 earthquake.
A research team led by senior academic Dr Lesley Seaton investigated actions taken by the institute?s Department of Nursing staff and the impact of a sudden, traumatic event on teaching and learning.
Dr Seaton said that the research is important as it would help other institutions plan for emergencies.
?The study is unique in that it is a case study extending over 18 months, when teaching and learning was happening at the same time as around 10,000 earthquakes. We looked at the ways staff kept themselves and their students safe, and kept the Bachelor of Nursing programme running, despite personal and professional challenges?
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?While planning does not always mean preparedness, we did find that there are things we can do as individuals, and as organisations, to keep ourselves safe and make responding to a disaster easier. Small things, like storing current contact details of staff members externally, will make communication easier in the aftermath of a disaster. Larger steps, like organisational planning around IT and communication, also need to be thought through.
?As the second anniversary of the February 22nd earthquake approaches, it seems timely to consider what we have learned and what action we have subsequently taken because what we also learnt is that we all need to keep preparedness in our consciousness.?...
