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Information for Incident Preparedness
Preparing to Responde
Tools
Create Your Planning Document
Prepare Your Team
- Assemble a hospital response team
- Create an emergency call list
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Consider what education and training opportunities could be
developed and offered, e.g., for pediatric and geriatric
issues
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Pediatric Population Curriculum
- Johnson HL, Ling CG, Gulley KH. Curriculum Recommendations for Disaster Health Professionals. The Pediatric Population. (PDF - 684 KB) (National Center for Disaster Medicine & Public Health, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. 2014)
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Curriculum Recommendations for Disaster Health
Professionals: The Geriatric Population
- Ling SG, McBee EC, Johnson HL. Curriculum Recommendations for Disaster Health Professionals. The Geriatric Population. (PDF - 569 KB (National Center for Disaster Medicine & Public Health, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. 2014)
- Siegel D, Strauss-Riggs K, Needle S. Prioritization of pediatric CBRNE disaster preparedness education and training needs. Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine (2014) 15: 309–317. [PubMed citation]
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Pediatric Population Curriculum
- Acquire professional competencies
- Be prepared with supplies and equipment
- Plan for possibility of care with scarce resources
- Conduct practices, exercises, and drills