Emergency Preparedness

Education Opportunity:

The Heartland Centers for Public Health & Community Capacity Development:  Introduction to Emergency Preparedness for All Nurses.  This course is designed as an introduction to emergency preparedness for nurses regardless of specialty.

Course Competencies:         

  • Describe the nurses' role in emergency response in a range of emergencies that might arise
  • Identify limits to own knowledge, skill, and authority, and identify key resource for referring matters that exceed these limits
  • Recognize unusual events that might indicate an emergency and describe appropriate action
  • Describe the chain of command in emergency response
  • Describe his/her functional role(s) in emergency response
  • Describe the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and its major components
  • Describe unified management in a multi-agency unified emergency response 

Program Objectives: 

  • Define a disaster
  • Describe the role of a nurse during a disaster
  • Describe the National Incident Management System (NIMS)
  • Describe vulnerable populations nurses may work with during an emergency
  • Describe how to prepare yourself and family for a disaster
  • Describe critical stress management for nurses working in a disaster
  • Describe ways to help survivors cope with lossDescribe adverse mental health outcomes post-disaster 

Estimated Completion Time: 2 hours 

Please click the link below to access this course on the HETC and HCPHP's Learning Management System (LMS): http://heartlandcenters.learnpublichealth.com/KView/CustomCodeBehind/Customization/DPH_PreviewPage.aspx?strItemType=CntLink&Id=6C219D8E213D4DD98135DE2CD1D9D783. For questions about this course or other HETC or HCPHP courses, please contact Eileen Legaspi at elegaspi@slu.eduor 314-977-4057

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