ICS Web Training Course IS-800
The IS-800 course is available through FEMA’s website. The course introduces participants to the concepts and principles of the National Response Framework.
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FEMA Training
The Federal Emergency Management Agency provides a range of training and preparedness resources that can significantly enhance hospitals’ emergency response capabilities. These include specialized courses for health care professionals to provide essential knowledge and skills for managing various emergency situations. Additionally, FEMA’s exercise and evaluation programs enable hospitals to develop and assess their emergency plans […]
Other Training Resources
The following resources are shared to support hospitals in enhancing their crisis preparedness and response capabilities. These tools focus on fostering effective collaboration between hospitals and emergency management agencies to support a coordinated responses during disasters. They also include training resources to help hospital staff gain specialized knowledge on protocols to ensure staff are equipped to handle various crisis scenarios.
Suspicious Activity Reporting: Training for Hospitals
Hospitals can help deter crime, violent incidents, and terrorism through reporting of suspicious activity.
Active Shooter Training Video
This instructive video from the US Department of Homeland Security demonstrates possible actions to take if confronted with an active shooter scenario. The video reviews the choices of evacuating, hiding, or, as an option of last resort, challenging the shooter. The video also shows how to assist authorities once law enforcement enters the scene.
Pediatric Surge Planning: Train-the-Trainer Course
Developed by Rady Children’s Hospital & San Diego County Healthcare Disaster Council, this curriculum aims to prepare hospitals to meet the response challenges in disasters where there is a surge of child victims.
Virtual Reality for Emergency Management Training
2023 Disaster Conference
The Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services require that health care entities maintain “all-hazard” emergency preparedness and response capability and capacity. Leveraging virtual reality (VR) as a training modality for emergency management training holds great promise as an effective, realistic, immersive, and scalable health care training strategy.
This session discussed adult learning theory, emergency management training challenges and strategies, and how virtual reality provides an efficient alternative to traditional training methods.
Workplace Violence Training: Health Care System Approaches to New Law
2018 Disaster Conference
This presentation provides an overview of Dignity Health’s approach to a new workplace violence law. The session provides an outline of their approach, an evaluation of the law’s impacts, reviews implementation timelines, and reviews logistical steps for meeting new requirements.
Active Shooter Awareness, Response and Survival Training
2021 Virtual Disaster Conference
Emergency management and security officials are increasingly tasked with ways to effectively and safely train hospital workers on how to respond. This presentation discusses new methodologies for tackling the crucial task of training each hospital staff member and department, based on their unique functions within the hospital, as well as with their specific locations on any hospital campus.
Safety and Security Assessment, Planning and Training Requirements
Under California law, all licensed general acute-care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and specialty hospitals are mandated to conduct an annual security and safety assessment. This assessment is crucial for developing a security plan aimed at safeguarding personnel, patients, and visitors against aggressive or violent behavior.