An investigation of the status of preparedness and crisis management restrictions in hospitals of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Abstract

Introduction: The recent events throughout the world have brought about an increase in paying attention to the planning area of study and getting ready against catastrophes. Health care organizations and hospitals have to do their best so that they can face the worst crises. The staffs and leaders can response to these crises by precise planning. The state of preparation and the restrictions should be identified in each hospital so that there would be more preparation to counter the unexpected phenomena by identifying the strong points and removing the restrictions. This article aimed to specifying the status of preparation and the restrictions of the crisis management in the hospitals of Isfahan university of Medical Sciences in 2014. Materials and Methods: this study was descriptive-analytical. The statistic community of this study comprises of the directors and managers of the hospital, the nursing managers and the authorities of the crisis committee of 11th section of educational hospitals in Isfahan. The tool of data collection was a researcher-made questionnaire on 8 scope on the basis of the Likert Scale which was prepared based on the research litrature and the crisis management standards which was approved by experts. Its reliability was calculated 0.7 by cronbach alpha. The data were interpreted by descriptive statistics and Pearson Correlation analysis. Findings: The comparative study of the crisis management restrictions and preparation dimensions on the basis of the hospitals under investigation suggest that there had been a significant difference among the hospitals only in two dimensions of the crisis committee status and the preparation maneuver (P-Value <0.05). Also Command system dimension in critical situations in Amin hospital has had the most average while preparation maneuver dimension in Feyz Hospital has had the least mean. In general, the crisis management restrictions preparation of the hospitals under study has not been significantly different in general (P-Value 0.05). Conclusion: According to the Participants'views the preparation status and the crisis restrictions were at a desirable level and only lack of new technologies have been apparent in the critical situations. Hence, the hospital director not only have to invest more in providing and preserving the new technologies to use in the critical situations, but also to provide some arrangements to educate and empowerment the hospital's staff in order to use these technologies.