Emergency preparedness development

Emergency preparedness develop and maintain emergency plans in conjunction with emergency services, relevant authorities and the local community in areas where significant hazards exist. 

Employers will need to select how many different emergency preparedness or third lines of defense they plan to have, develop the necessary emergency plans and procedures, appropriately train employees in their emergency duties and responsibilities, and then implement these lines of defense. 

Planning Summary Develop an emergency preparedness plan for emergency events including a terrorist attack. Make sure training and practice drills are completed at least yearly, and look for potential vulnerabilities so the plan can be optimized. 

Following the identification and evaluation of the resources available to the facility, the Emergency Preparedness Team, under the direction of the manager, develops the written ERP for the entire facility. The Emergency Preparedness Team is responsible for ensuring that the written facility ERP informs all employees of their roles in an emergency and the hazards to which they may be exposed. 

Major industrial accidents must be prevented. National systems for emergency preparedness and response should be developed in all countries. 

Visit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness at http //www.hhs.gov/ophep/. What is the purpose of this agency Find the National Disaster Medical System (http //www.ndms.dhhs.gov/index. html). Why was this system developed, and what are the responsibilities of the teams How do you join a team How are teams notified of current national conditions ... 

Emergency preparedness core competencies have been developed for public health (Gebbie Merrill, 2002), nurses (Gebbie Qureshi, 2002), and all hospital workers and leaders (Gebbie Merrill, 2002). Table 8.2 summarizes these core competencies for hospital workers. These emergency preparedness competencies are cross cutting knowledge, skills, and abilities that all hospital workers must be able to demonstrate, and there are additional competencies for hospital leaders. 

The ABA s Central Office is working with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness to establish and maintain a real-time burn bed availability program for the nation. In the recent past, the ABA worked with the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research on a burn bed resource capacity project. The ABA Central Office will continue to work with HHS and others to develop and maintain a real-time burn bed resource capacity reporting system. 

U.S. Department of Justice. Guidance about basic areas of emergency preparedness and response that for people with disabilities as developed and implemented by local authorities. Gontact http //www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/ emergencyprep. htm... 

The Columbia University School of Nursing, Center for Health Policy has core competencies for all public health workers pertaining to bioterrorism and emergency preparedness to support training efforts. The competencies are based on the essential services of public health, to promote physical and mental health and prevent disease, injury, and disability, and serve as an emergency preparedness foundation for both individual and institutional development (Columbia University School of Nursing, 2002). 

Levy and Sidel (2003) have described four overall roles for all health professionals in terrorism and public health. These are (1) develop improved preparedness, (2) respond to the health consequences of terrorist attacks and threats, (3) take action to prevent terrorism, and (4) promote a balance between response to terrorism and other public health concerns. When aligned with the public health emergency preparedness competencies, these four roles create a framework for the public health nursing response to a biological event. 

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