Predicting Biosecurity Threats: Deployment and Detection of Biological Weapons

Volk, Kaitlin M.; Gering, Trajan J.

doi:10.1007/978-94-024-2086-9_13

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“…The frequent occurrence of public health emergencies and safety incidents such as COVID-19 and other emerging infectious diseases have highlighted the importance of biosafety [23]. With the increased safety risks due to the misuse and abuse of new dual-use biotechnology, global attention to biosafety issues has been unprecedented [24]. The outbreak and handling of the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed weaknesses in early monitoring and warning systems for infectious disease outbreaks [25,26].…”

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Development and validation of the biosafety incident response competence scale for clinical nursing staff

Wu,

Zhang,

Zhang

et al. 2023

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Aims: This study aimed to develop the biosafety incident response competence scale and evaluate its validity and reliability among clinical nurses. Design: A scale development and validation study was completed in the following three phases: (1) the construction of a multidimensional conceptual model, (2) the preliminary exploration of the items, and (3) further exploration and evaluation of the items. Methods: The multidimensional conceptual model was developed through a literature review and the Delphi method. A total of 1,712 clinical nurses participated in the preliminary item exploration, while 1,027 clinical nurses were involved in the further item evaluation from July 2023 to August 2023. The item analysis, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted to evaluate the construct validity. The reliability was measured by internal consistency, split-half reliability and test–retest reliability. Results: The final scale is composed of 4 factors and 29 items, scored on a 5-point scale. The factors included monitoring and warning abilities, nursing disposal abilities, biosafety knowledge preparedness, and infection protection abilities. The explanatory variance of the 4 factors was 75.100%. The validity and reliability of the scale are well validated. The internal consistency, split-half reliability and test-retest reliability were 0.974, 0.945 and 0.840 respectively. The scale has good structural validity and content validity. The content validity was 0.866. Conclusions: The biosafety incident response competence scale for nurses exhibits satisfactory reliability and validity, making it a valuable tool for assessing clinical nurses' abilities in responding to biosafety incidents. Patient or Public Contribution: Clinical nurses participated in the exploration and evaluation of the nurse's biosafety incident response competence scale.

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Development and validation of the biosafety incident response competence scale for clinical nursing staff

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Zhang,

Zhang

et al. 2023

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“…et al [12] clari ed the legal knowledge and ability that medical personnel should possess when responding to public health emergencies. Emerging infectious diseases and biological weapons are currently posing a severe threat to all of humanity due to climate change and global instability [13] . Every member of the clinical nursing staff now needs to be pro cient in biosafety response capability; it is no longer just a skill that public health nurses, nursing supervisors, or military nurses need to master.…”

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Construction of an index system of the biosafety incident response capability for nursing staff: A Delphi study

Wu,

Zhang,

Zhang

et al. 2023

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Aim: This study was to establish an index system of the biosafety incident response capability for nursing staff. Background: Faced with austere situations of the biosafety threat, the study on the requirement for nursing staff to respond to the biosafety incidents is not clear. Methods. A modified recommendation for the Conducting and Reporting of Delphi studies was used to guide this study. After two-round Delphi survey, 28 nursing specialists from 6 provinces and cities around China, with expertise in three prevention research, epidemiology, military health service and biosafety incident rescue, established the index system of the biosafety incident response capability for nursing staff. Results: The index system of the biosafety incident response capability for nursing staff following the two-round Delphi survey is composed of 4 primary indicators, namely, biosafety incident preparedness, monitoring capability, protection ability and nursing disposal capabilities, 10 secondary indicators and 49 tertiary indicators. The authority coefficient, judgment coefficient and familiarity degree of Delphi experts were 0.877, 0.911 and 0.843 respectively. Conclusions: The index system of the biosafety incident response capability for nursing staff is scientific and reliable. It is helpful for nursing staff to perform better in biosafety incident by clarifying the specific items of biosafety response capability. Relevance to clinical practice: Nursing staff, who are part of clinical workers, play an important role in maintaining biosafety. They must make clear how to manage the pertinent instances in light of the growing biosafety concern. The nursing staff can use the index system of the biosafety incident response capacity as a training resource to enhance their preparedness for the response, monitoring and early warning, protection and sensitivity management, and nursing disposal capabilities.

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Construction of an Index System of the Biosafety Incident Response Capability for Nursing Staff: A Delphi Study

Wu,

Hu,

Zhang

et al. 2024

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AimThis study was to establish a scientific and sensitive index system of the biosafety incident response competence for clinical nursing staff to provide a reference for the evaluation of nurses' biosafety incident response competence.DesignA modified recommendation for the conducting and reporting of Delphi studies was used to guide this study.MethodsAccording to the literature review, preliminary biosafety incident response competence indicators for nursing staff were established, and an expert survey questionnaire was designed. The evaluation system for clinical nurses' biosafety incident response competence indicators was determined using the Delphi method.ResultsAfter two‐round Delphi survey, 28 nursing specialists from six provinces and cities around China, with expertise in three prevention research, epidemiology, military health service and biosafety incident rescue, established the index system of the biosafety incident response competence for nursing staff from April to May 2023. The final index system of the biosafety incident response competence was composed of four primary indicators, namely, biosafety incident preparedness, monitoring competence, protection ability and nursing disposal abilities; 10 secondary indicators and 49 tertiary indicators. The effective recovery rates of the two rounds of expert survey questionnaires were 93.33% and 100%, respectively. The authority coefficient, judgement coefficient and familiarity degree of Delphi experts were 0.877, 0.911 and 0.843, respectively. The Kendall's harmony coefficients of the two rounds of expert consultation were 0.301–0.384 and 0.401–0.424, respectively, with statistical significance (p < 0.05).ConclusionThe index system of the biosafety incident response competence for nursing staff is scientific and reliable. The authors have provided a more reliable and comprehensive basis for evaluating nurses' biosafety incident response competence in the future.Conclusion and Implications for NursingIt is helpful for nursing staff to perform better in biosafety incident by clarifying the specific items of biosafety response competence. Nursing staff can use the index system as the evaluation tool and training references to enhance their biosafety incident response competence.Patient or Public ContributionNo patient or public contribution.

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Predicting Biosecurity Threats: Deployment and Detection of Biological Weapons

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

Development and validation of the biosafety incident response competence scale for clinical nursing staff

Development and validation of the biosafety incident response competence scale for clinical nursing staff

Construction of an index system of the biosafety incident response capability for nursing staff: A Delphi study

Construction of an Index System of the Biosafety Incident Response Capability for Nursing Staff: A Delphi Study

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