Nurses’ Preparation to Manage Psychological Crises: The Importance of Psychological First Aid Training
Background: Crises and disasters, both natural and human-made, profoundly impact individuals and communities, leading to issues like anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nurses, as first responders, play a crucial role in providing psychological first aid (PFA) to the affe...
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| description | Background: Crises and disasters, both natural and human-made, profoundly impact individuals and communities, leading to issues like anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nurses, as first responders, play a crucial role in providing psychological first aid (PFA) to the affected persons.
Main Idea: This commentary underscores the importance of PFA training to empower nurses in the effective management of psychological crisis. It also discusses strategies to enhance PFA training, including specialized education, team-based approaches, and access to supportive resources.
Conclusion: PFA training enables nurses to offer effective support during crises and promoting community resilience. It is recommended that PFA be integrated into nursing education and professional development to strengthen nurses’ crisis response capabilities. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-562b13bf34a548409bae3c5bae72ff2c2025-08-20T03:57:09ZengIran University of Medical SciencesJournal of Client-centered Nursing Care2476-41242476-41322025-08-01113261264Nurses’ Preparation to Manage Psychological Crises: The Importance of Psychological First Aid TrainingZahra Saboohi0Mahnaz Solhi1 Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Health Promotion Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Background: Crises and disasters, both natural and human-made, profoundly impact individuals and communities, leading to issues like anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nurses, as first responders, play a crucial role in providing psychological first aid (PFA) to the affected persons. Main Idea: This commentary underscores the importance of PFA training to empower nurses in the effective management of psychological crisis. It also discusses strategies to enhance PFA training, including specialized education, team-based approaches, and access to supportive resources. Conclusion: PFA training enables nurses to offer effective support during crises and promoting community resilience. It is recommended that PFA be integrated into nursing education and professional development to strengthen nurses’ crisis response capabilities.http://jccnc.iums.ac.ir/article-1-662-en.pdfpsychological first aid (pfa)nursesdisastersdisaster planning |
| spellingShingle | Zahra Saboohi Mahnaz Solhi Nurses’ Preparation to Manage Psychological Crises: The Importance of Psychological First Aid Training Journal of Client-centered Nursing Care psychological first aid (pfa) nurses disasters disaster planning |
| title | Nurses’ Preparation to Manage Psychological Crises: The Importance of Psychological First Aid Training |
| title_full | Nurses’ Preparation to Manage Psychological Crises: The Importance of Psychological First Aid Training |
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| title_short | Nurses’ Preparation to Manage Psychological Crises: The Importance of Psychological First Aid Training |
| title_sort | nurses preparation to manage psychological crises the importance of psychological first aid training |
| topic | psychological first aid (pfa) nurses disasters disaster planning |
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