paper presented at the 17th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Beijing, China, 31st May.

1. Disaster content varies in Australian postgraduate tertiary emergency nursing courses: implications for educational preparedness Jamie Ranse Assistant ProfessorFaculty of Health University of Canberra Email: jamie.ranse@canberra.edu.au Website: www.jamieranse.com Twitter: jamieranse

2. research team Mr Jamie Ranse1,2 Prof Paul Arbon2 Mr Ramon Shaban3,4 Dr Julie Considine5,6 Ms Belinda Mitchell6 Mr Shane Lenson7 1. University of Canberra 2. Flinders University 3. Griffith University 4. Princess Alexandra Hospital 5. Deakin University 6. Northern Health 7. Royal College of Nursing, Australia Acknowledgements Ben Morley Scholarship, College of Emergency Nursing Australasia

4. In-service

5. Formal programs

6. Emergency nursing workforce

9. Tertiary emergency nursing programs in 2009

10. Course convenors

12. Disaster content

14. Other disaster education: 4 (40%)

19. Expert

21. Online

23. Disaster not discussed in all programs