National Incident Management System

HSPD - 5 Management of Domestic Incidents. Enhances the ability of the United States to manage domestic incidents by establishing a single, comprehensive national incident management system. 

The NRP works hand-in-hand with the National Incident Management System and incorporates the tenets of the Incident Command System. 

Describe the National Response Plan and the National Incident Management System. 

IS-100 Introduction to Incident Command System, 1-100 As an introduction to the Incident Command System (ICS), this course provides the foundation for higher-level ICS training. This course describes the history, features and principles, and organizational structure of the Incident Command System. It also explains the relationship between ICS and the National Incident Management System (NIMS). 

Department of Homeland Security. (2004a, March 1). National Incident Management System. Retrieved January 28, 2005, from http //www.dhs.gov/interweh/assetlihrary/NRP FullText. pdf... 

After 9/11, the federal government adopted a National Response Plan (NRP), built on the template of the National Incident Management System (NIMS), which adopts an all-hazards approach to emergency management, helping streamline a national response irrespective of the cause of the emergency (i.e., terrorist or natural DHS, 2004). The NRP applies to all incidents requiring a coordinated federal response and is scalable to the nature of the event. However, NRP maintains the local/state primary role in public health response, with a continued premise that state and local authorities will handle the first response. (A private-sector role is also envisioned.)... 

A streamlined organizational chart that is consistent with the National Incident Management System (NIMS), which includes nine key positions incident commander public information officer safety officer liaison officer section chiefs for operations, fi-nance/administration, planning, and logistics and a medical/technical specialist. 

The framework of the book is consistent with the United States National Response Plan, the National Incident Management System, and is based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s (GDC) Competencies for public health preparedness and the GDC Guidelines for response to chemical, biological, and radiological events. This textbook will provide nurses with a heightened awareness for disasters and mass casualty incidents, a solid foundation of knowledge (educational competencies) and a tool box of skills (occupational competencies) to respond in a timely and appropriate manner. 

In response to the terrorist threat, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) developed the National Incident Management System (NIMS). This system makes use of the ICS but expands it so that federal, state, and local governments can work together, not only to respond to a terrorist attack (or other natural... 

Response to any recognized terrorist attack probably would immediately be federalized and perhaps even militarized (see the section National Incident Management System in Chapter 1). In today s world it is not a question of whether such an attack will happen hut only where, when, and hy what method ... 

National Incident Management System (NIMS) impl entation objectives. The 14 NIMS implementation objectives as follows ... 

National incident management system (NIMS)— The system established by the US Department... 

Resources—Personnel and major items of equipment, supplies, and facilities available or potentially available for assignment to incident operations and for which status is maintained. Under the national incident management system, resources are described by kind and type and may be used in operational support or supervisory capacities at an incident or at an emergency operations center. Respiratory inlet covering—The portion of a respirator that forms the protective barrier between the user s respiratory tract and an air-purilying device or breathing air source. 

Span of control— The number of resources for which a supervisor is responsible, usually expressed as the ratio of supervisors to individuals. (Under the national incident management system, an appropriate span of control is between 1 3 and 1 7, with optimal being 1 5.)... 

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