Prepare Your Clinicians
for Emergencies

Handle Emergency Preparedness Training with Education Tailored for
Your Clinical Staff



Healthcare staff responding quickly and appropriately is the key to saving lives in an emergency situation. The Emergency Preparedness Special Topics for Clinicians Library trains clinical staff on topics such as patient movement during evacuations, bioterrorism and radiological preparedness, and special needs for pediatric and geriatric populations.

These courses are designed to help your organization meet federal, state, and Joint Commission training requirements and improve employee competence during a disaster.

 

Impact:
Save Lives

  • Follow appropriate evacuation procedures
  • Identify security concerns that affect evacuations
  • Address challenges in pediatric and
    geriatric triage

Achieve Compliance
  • Meet CMS and Joint Commission training requirements
  • Meet state bioterrorism training requirements

Improve Employee Competence

  • Reinforce accountability
  • Build confidence

 

Features:

  • Interactive learning activities, web links, and exercises
  • Brief quizzes to test comprehension of the material
  • Documentation of an individual’s completion of a course

 

This library is essential for:

  • Meeting Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services emergency preparedness training requirements
  • Clinical staff who treat geriatric or pediatric patients

This library supports:

  • Homeland Security Preparedness recommendations
  • CDC guidelines
  • Nuclear Regulatory Commission recommendations

 

Courses in the Library

  • Advanced Radiological Preparedness for Clinicians
  • Bioterrorism Preparedness for Clinicians
  • Small Victims, Big Challenges: Pediatric Triage, Treatment, and Recovery in Disasters
  • Geriatric Preparedness, Triage, and Treatment in Disasters
  • Patient Movement During Evacuations

 

Subject Matter Experts
Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response has subject matter experts in Infectious Disease, Epidemiology, Toxicology, Emergency Response / Management / Planning, Behavioral Health, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Radiation, other CBRNE, and additional specialties with healthcare and first
receiver / responder experience.