Hospital Emergency Exercises

AUDIO CONFERENCE ON-DEMAND

Sponsored by: Hospital Safety Center

Presented on Monday, April 11, 2011

Design, conduct, and evaluate your emergency exercises to test the capabilities of staff members and protect your patients

During this 90-minute audio conference our expert speakers will walk you through an eight-step model hospitals can use to design, conduct, and evaluate your emergency management exercises and comply with The Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. As an example of the process, learn how Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center developed and executed a full-scale emergency exercise for the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Benefits:

• Develop and design a safety plan that can be implemented quickly and effectively
• Gain communicate techniques that ensure all staff follow directions
• Learn techniques to involve staff at the deepest levels to guarantee the safety of patients and staff
• Receive tools and templates to help you make efficient and effective use of time and resources
• Learn steps to “chunk” out large full scale exercises.

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Identify critical documents to drive the design of the next exercise
• Create SMART objectives
• Identify the methods for evaluation of the objectives
• Evaluate strengths and opportunities in an After Action Report that will drive your performance improvement plan
• Use an Improvement Plan grid to assign responsibility for improvements and track completion dates
• Understanding and exercising the whole event from multiple standpoints will bring the institution further than exercising departments in silos
• Understanding hospitals are 24/7 institutions, front line to senior leader staff need to be alleviated of normal operations to participate and learn during exercises
• To hear how Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center managed 5 operating areas during a large full scale NICU evacuation exercise, how we managed accelerated timelines for exercise purposes
• To identify the external resources around you, develop connectivity and how collaborative exercising seals commitment among partners
• Understanding how to effectively control and manage large full scale exercises to achieve goals and objectives

TAKE A LOOK AT OUR AGENDA

1. How do we begin to design an exercise?
2. How can I get my committee to agree on objectives before they start to write the “story”?                   
3. How can the HSEEP required three year planning and training cycle make my life easier when it comes to designing exercises?
4. Where can I access scenarios and checklists that fit MY size hospital? 
5. How can we design hospital exercises that exercise multiple departments effectively within one exercise?
6. How do we “ready” and plan for staff and family participation in an exercise?
7. How can we design a comprehensive exercise that exercises multiple operating areas across an accelerated time span?
8. How we develop exercises that include and incorporate external response partners in a collaborative forum.
9. How to control an exercise effectively and avoid exercises “running amuck”
10. Live Q&A

BONUS TOOLS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIALS PACKET:

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audio conference, you’ll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and tools, including:

• List of documents to gather prior to an exercise design meeting
• Grid for identifying past exercise
• Exercise design checklist
• List of sample objectives to meet the 6 critical areas

WHO SHOULD LISTEN:

Safety directors/officers, emergency management directors, Emergency Management Committees, Emergency Management coordinators, security directors/officers, CEO, facility manager, managers, personnel, Safety Committees, Environment of Care Committees

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Meg Femino is Director for Emergency Management at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston. In this role, she provides leadership, oversight, administrative, and planning support for emergency management and disaster preparedness activities. She holds a certificate in Community Preparedness and Disaster Management from University of North Carolina, School of Public Health and is a 2006 graduate of Harvard University’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative.

Marge McFarlane, PhD, CHSP, HEM, MEP, CHEP, is an independent safety consultant currently serving the Wisconsin Hospital Emergency Preparedness Program as the Department of Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program  coordinator. She previously served as the lead for the Environment of Care and Emergency Management Committee at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, WI. She is involved in a wide range of activities related to emergency preparedness at the county, regional, state and national levels. She has more than 36 years of hospital experience and is a frequent presenter in the areas of safety, bloodborne pathogens, infection control for construction, emergency management, and hospital exercise design.

AUDIO ON-DEMAND:

In addition to the regular participation options for HCPro audio conferences we are pleased to offer another option, an audio on-demand. Audio on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player. It’s also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.

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