Education and training
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Training readiness - Desktop training
- Environmental surge capacity training
- More training opportunities
Training readiness
AHRQ – Hospital atlas on preparedness exercises
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released an atlas to resources and tools, a guidebook and pocket guide to help hospitals plan, conduct and evaluate exercises to prepare for emergencies.
CDC - QuickStats
QuickStats: Percentage of Hospitals with Staff Members Trained to Respond to Selected Terrorism-Related Diseases or Exposures --- National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, United States, 2003-2004 - MMWR Weekly - April 27, 2007.
During 2003--2004, the percentage of hospitals with emergency department staff members with bioterrorism-preparedness training for certain related diseases or exposures varied from 52.3% for hemorrhagic fever to 86.0% for smallpox.
Source: Training for terrorism-related conditions in hospitals: United States, 2003--04. Niska RW, Burt CW. Advance data from vital and health statistics; no. 380. Hyattsville, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, National Center for Health Statistics; 2006.
Desktop training
Concerro's CommandAware™ Hospital Incident Response System
Comprehensive Web-based interactive disaster management system designed by and for hospitals. Addresses all four stages of incident management: Prepare, Mitigate, Respond, and Recover, from temporary patient surges to mass casualty events. CommandAware includes: a Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (HVA), a fully-configurable "best practices" Disaster Management (DM) Plan, incident-specific dashboards and job action sheets for all Incident Command System (ICS) functions and hospital units, and post-incident "lessons learned" and expense recovery functions. The system provides tools and guidance for all major hospital constituencies, and can be readily configured for any hospital. It automates the tracking of available beds, personnel and supplies and provides interactive alerts and multi-channel communications linking the ICS and each hospital. CommandAware is designed to meet TJC, HEICS and NIMS standards. For more information, contact Beverly Barrett at BBarrett@concerro.com or 800.775.1487 .
Simulation Education Services (SES)
A cost effective and compliant solution for hospitals to address community based disaster and emergency preparedness through Internet-based DeskTop Drills using distance conferencing technologies to hold a disaster scenario event with participants attending via phone and internet from anywhere. DeskTop Drills encourages hospitals to involve community disaster resources in the drills including public health and safety resources, provides a realistic sense of urgency in decision making and response, and exercises the communication and interaction among all involved organizations and agencies. These DeskTop Drills have been developed to satisfy JCAHO accreditation and government compliance requirements for community-based exercises. For more information, please contact Jeffrey Lefko at jlefko@simulationed.com.
Contingency Planning and Outsourcing, Inc.
CPO, Inc. is a full service provider of business continuity, disaster recovery and emergency planning products and services to the public and private sectors, including healthcare facilities. A variety of tools and software products and services are available to support business continuity efforts, including initial and ongoing efforts, as well as even outdated plans. Planning software and plan development services can assist with the rapid development or revision of a plan that can be maintained going forward. For more information contact Tim Lord at 803 - 712 - 6106 Tim.Lord@CPOtracker.com.
Environmental surge capacity training
Surge Capacity - MERET- Minnesota Emergency Preparedness Education and Training
The MERET site has six modules including one on isolation and one on how to develop Temporary Negative Pressure rooms (TNP).
Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) "Airborne Infectious Disease Management Manual – Methods for Temporary Negative Pressure Isolation"
This user guide was written to assist hospitals in developing strategies for temporary negative pressure isolation and provides instruction on the use of equipment used for airborne infectious disease management. Preventative maintenance schedules and a sample log for measuring particle counts are included for performance improvement planning. Additional information including slides for training is located at the Web site below.
More opportunities
American
Academy of Family Physicians
The AAFP provides a course: Biochemical Terrorism Defenses: The Role
of the Family Physician Home Study Self-Assessment. This audio program
from July 2001 is free to members.
American College
of Physician-American Society of Internal Medicine
The ACP-ASIM also provides decision tools and audiotapes for a small
fee.
American Medical
Association
The AMA has added resources and online training course for CME.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/6206.html
CDC Bioterrorism and the Infection Control Team
CDC has provided a series of Web casts that are archived for viewing
any time. The material is also provided as free videotapes and segments
are available as PowerPoint presentations. This Nov 16, 2001 Web cast
provides excellent infection control information on Anthrax and
Smallpox. Each segment may be downloaded as PowerPoint presentations at
this site.
APIC e-learning
module on Anthrax
Self-learning tool on Anthrax made available by the Association for
Infection Control and Epidemiology Inc. with no fee.
CDC Anthrax Slides
The PowerPoint slides are the core set of slides used in the CDC
Video cast of 11/01/01 "Anthrax, What Every Clinician should know"
Anthrax Interactive Tutorial -Patient Education Institute
Major resources are available at the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Medical Management of Biological/Chemical Casualties Course
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
(USAMRIID) and U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense
(USAMRICD).
Clinical Aspects of
Critical Biologic Agents
Michigan Department of Community Health. Bureau of Epidemiology.
Sponsored by the Public Health Consortium.
This Web site includes a self-study educational module for physician continuing medical education credits. Individuals can complete the presentation online or download it for later use. Slides and materials are available as pdf, PowerPoint, Word, or WordPerfect. To order a CD-ROM version, contact Surveillance Systems Section, Bureau of Epidemiology, Community Public Health Agency (e-mail: MDCH_ENS@state.mi.us).
Supercourse on Anthrax
This site provides a self training course on Anthrax with excellent
text and photos of the agent and disease. The homepage maintains updated
information on Anthrax as well as background on a prior outbreak in
Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg) Russia in April, 1979.
University of Alabama and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Center for Disaster Preparedness
The AHRQ has partnered with the University of Alabama in providing a free
online series of educational courses on bioterrorism for healthcare
professionals.
University of Louisville School of Medicine
The University of Louisville also provides an educational series on
bioterrorism available for CME. Registration information is provided on the
site.
Fisher Healthcare Training
Fisher Safety provides fully customized web based and on-site
training and consulting services that assist organizations’ employees in
complying with the numerous federal, state, and local safety, health and
environmental regulations associated with the workplace. Fisher Safety
training services helps employees recognize and correct unsafe
situations, respond appropriately in the event of an emergency situation
and permit them to work with confidence. On-line training available as
well.
MERET- Minnesota Emergency Preparedness Education and Training
The MERET site has six modules including one on isolation and one on how to
develop Temporary Negative Pressure rooms (TNP).