Emergency Preparedness Solutions: Customizable Paper Patients

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Emergency Preparedness Solutions: Customizable Paper Patients is an electronic collection of patient profiles that will help you drill for any type of disaster event and test your emergency operations plan (EOP), satisfying a major Joint Commission compliance requirement. Download a FREE Sample!

Emergency preparedness expert and author Mary Russell, EdD, MSN, designed these patients with front-line emergency receivers in mind. Each template is designed to teach staff how to make quick, informed decisions about patient care based on visual and clinical information. And best of all, you don't have to waste valuable hours creating patient profiles for every drill you run–just adapt ours to fit your needs!

The set comes in three types of fully electronic, customizable patients:

Triage Paper Patients provide disaster exercise participants with visual cues, such as a victim's relative age, level of consciousness, and ability to sit or stand. Hospitals can mass produce these patients to stress the facilities surge capabilities and triage process for an influx of patients during a drill.

Disaster-Specific Paper Patients show individuals involved in specific scenarios, such as chemical spills, or mass-casualty incidents. These patients come with prepopulated clinical presentations that you can modify to fit the needs of your exercises.

Everyday Paper Patients simulate typical emergency room patients that will continue to present to your facility, even during a disaster. Similar to the Disaster Paper Patients, these patients come with prepopulated clinical presentations that you can modify to fit the needs of your exercises You can also customize the symptoms to fit your specific drill, giving you the opportunity to prepare for an infinite number of scenarios.

You'll receive more than 80 Paper Patients in all via download, each presenting unique symptoms and clinical presentations. The patients' conditions can be upgraded or downgraded, and their symptoms will change based on your preferences. The goal is to help your facility prepare so it can handle the real thing when it happens.

Paper patients allow you to:

• Satisfy Joint Commission requisites for testing your EOP
• Conduct disaster drills at your facility, even if you do not have enough volunteers to simulate the real thing
• Encounter a realistic variety of patients—from the ones you are "expecting" that arrive via ambulance, to the ones who come to the hospital on their own
• Customize your patients and control their clinical presentations

The Paper Patients are available via downloadable Word files and are the perfect training tool to put your EOP and  your staff to the test.

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