Being Both an Earthquake Survivor and a Nurse: Türkiye's Twin Earthquakes

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dc.contributor.authorAlan, Handan
dc.contributor.authorOzen Bekar, Ebru
dc.contributor.authorKavaslar, Ibrahim
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-11T20:48:10Z
dc.date.available2025-10-11T20:48:10Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.departmentDüzce Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractBackground: In February 2023, twin earthquakes struck 11 provinces in T & uuml;rkiye, devastating infrastructure and healthcare services. Nurses, as both survivors and frontline responders, faced extreme physical, emotional, and organizational challenges. Their experiences offer critical insights into disaster-related occupational risks and the structural gaps in worker health and safety. This study aims to explore the experiences of nurses working in hospitals affected by the twin earthquakes in T & uuml;rkiye in 2023.Methods: A qualitative, descriptive research design was used. Study participants were selected using purposeful sampling among nurses who experienced the earthquakes and continued working in the affected areas. In-depth online interviews were conducted with 17 nurses, achieving data saturation. The data were analyzed using content analysis, and the COREQ checklist was followed for study reporting.Results: As a result of the analysis, four themes were revealed; (1) earthquake shock, (2) working conditions, (3) living conditions, and (4) family and psychosocial situation. Nurses reported overwhelming psychological strain, unsafe working environments, lack of disaster plans, inadequate managerial support, and severe resource shortages-all of which posed significant threats to worker health and safety.Conclusions/Applications to Practice: This study highlights how nurses' dual roles as victims and caregivers during a large-scale disaster exposed critical vulnerabilities in worker health and safety. The findings underline the urgency of disaster-specific worker health and safety strategies, including trauma-informed mental health care, rapid staff support systems, and safety-oriented organizational planning to protect frontline healthcare workers in emergencies.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/21650799251367357
dc.identifier.issn2165-0799
dc.identifier.issn2165-0969
dc.identifier.pmid40888417en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-105014811483en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/21650799251367357
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12684/21765
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001563612300001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMeden_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSage Publications Incen_US
dc.relation.ispartofWorkplace Health & Safetyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.snmzKA_WOS_20250911
dc.subjectdisaster nursingen_US
dc.subjectworker health and safetyen_US
dc.subjectoccupational healthen_US
dc.subjectearthquakesen_US
dc.subjectcrisis managementen_US
dc.titleBeing Both an Earthquake Survivor and a Nurse: Türkiye's Twin Earthquakesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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