NURBN 3022: Disaster Preparedness Training Evaluation & Critique

This assignment provides answers to questions based on a research article concerning the evaluation of disaster preparedness training and disaster drills for nursing students. It identifies the evaluation methodology used in the research, the data collection tools utilized (interviews, focus groups, and observation), and the data analysis methods (R Foundation software, paired t-test). The assignment also specifies the population and sample size of the study, which included undergraduate and diploma students from four universities. Furthermore, the assignment critiques the key findings of the research, discussing the influence of external factors like the Hawthorne, halo, and practice effects on pre-test and post-test evaluations, and highlights the importance of teamwork in disaster response scenarios.