Search Results for: "2024 Disaster Conference"

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Enhancing Health Care Emergency Preparedness

2024 Disaster Conference

This session highlights recent resources and tools ASPR TRACIE developed in coordination with its subject matter expert, Cadre, in response to current hot topics in health care preparedness such as: cyber threats, hospital and regional patient surge management, pediatric resources, workforce shortages, utility outages, behavioral health and workforce resilience, and health care coalition engagement.

Understanding and Managing Hospital Surge

2024 Disaster Conference

This presentation delves into the critical issue of hospital surge and explores the various factors contributing increased patient volume, resource scarcity, and workforce shortages. Also discussed are the potential impacts of hospital surge on patient care quality, health care worker morale, and overall hospital operations.

Multi-Sector Collaborative Approach to Emergency Preparedness

2024 Disaster Conference

This presentation will demonstrate the importance of a multi-sector and community-based approach to Emergency Preparedness. It will include key steps to take to succeed at collaboration and highlight its importance by tying it to real world events. Attendees will learn simple steps that can be easily applied to help build collaborative efforts in the community.

Building Relationships in a Health Care Coalition

2024 Disaster Conference

When disaster strikes, help can come from unlikely sources. Active participation in a health care coalition provides hospitals the opportunity to grow and cultivate relationships before disaster strikes. This presentation will present four different examples of how strong, preexisting relationships proved crucial during emergencies, benefiting both the hospital and the community at large.

Trust: The Secret Ingredient

2024 Disaster Conference

This presentation explores the importance of trust in creating and maintaining connected, collaborative relationships and high performing teams. Learn about trust inventory and its importance in building or repairing trust, understand the difference between trust and psychological safety, and how they influence each other, and how to apply the trust framework to a working relationship to identify specific issues and develop the best approach for rebuilding trust with that person.

Managing Patients with Suspected Special Pathogens

2024 Disaster Conference

This presentation discusses the management of a patient with a special pathogen who presents to a front-line facility. The session reviews considerations for PPE selection, waste management, and enhanced infection control measures.

A+ After-Action Reports

2024 Disaster Conference

Discover practical strategies for leveraging resources, technology, and emergency management expertise to streamline the AAR writing process. From exercises to real-life incidents, learn how to transform insights gathered into actionable recommendations that enhance organizational resilience.

Preparing for Pediatric Disaster Victims

2024 Disaster Conference

This presentation provides valuable insight into pediatric disaster planning and response and highlights three new resources – a family preparedness activity, a pediatric decontamination picture book, and a virtual training workshop covering many pediatric disaster scenarios.

Pediatric Patient Surge Preparedness

2024 Disaster Conference

This presentation outlines approaches for pediatric patient surges: what to prepare for, important roles and responsibilities, and share resources and best practices. The session reviews pediatric surge planing and reviews steps to developing an plan for mass casualty incidents.