DEVELOPING DISASTER EXERCISES FOR HOSPITALS: Simplifying the Process

This four-day hands-on, activity-based training is designed to prepare participants to be the in-house disaster exercise design expert for their facility.
The course is modeled on the DHS/FEMA 3-week disaster exercise design course for emergency management and first responders.

Participants will learn about:
Download an agenda and objectives

• 7 types of exercises including considerations involving cost, time frame and personnel

• Overview of a Comprehensive Exercise Plan

• Overview of the Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) Toolkit

• Overview of Hospital Incident Command Structure (HICS) Incident Planning and Response Guides

• Overview of HSEEP Exercise Evaluation Guides

• 8 Steps in the Exercise Design Process

• After Action Reports and Improvement Plans

• Exercise documentation including Player Manual, Controller/Evaluator Manual, Master Scenario Events List (MSEL), and Evaluator Tool

• Moulage and its use as a tool to enhance exercises

More than half of the course will be spent in skill building activities. Working in teams, participants will:

• Develop and conduct a tabletop exercise

• Conduct a drill

• Develop a full-scale exercise 

Who should participate?

Hospital personnel tasked with developing and conducting disaster exercises for their facility.
The goal is to give participants the information and tools they need to design and conduct internal hospital exercises.
The training will also better enable them to participate as members of the design team for multi-agency exercises conducted by emergency management or public health.  

When and where?

This FREE training will be held at The Leadership Center in Aurora, NE, from Monday, September 22nd through Thursday, September 25th.
Sessions start at 10:00 am on the 22^nd and end at 3:00 pm on the 25^th.
Lodging and meals will be provided.

What to bring?

It would be helpful to bring a laptop if you have one.

Commitment required & Pre-requisites

Because each module of the training builds on previous modules, participants are asked to commit to the full training period.

In addition, participants will need to have completed
IS-100.HC Introduction to the Incident Command System for Healthcare/Hospitals,
IS-200.HC Applying ICS to Healthcare Organizations and
IS-700 National Incident Command System (NIMS) an Introduction
During the registration process, participants will be asked to provide copies of their certificates of completion for these courses.

HOW TO REGISTER

Because of the hands-on nature of this training, class size is limited to 30 with no more than two participants per hospital.
This first offering is by invitation only and the registration deadline is July 21st.

Contact Beckie at 402.552.2529 to register