Tabletop Exercises...Hospitals

Every hospital needs to prepare for critical incidents to protect patients, staff, faculty and facilities. According to The Hospital Incident Command System (HICS), “Training and exercise of the disaster plan builds the confidence of the entire staff. Honest critiquing will illuminate those areas which are in need of further revision or retraining."

HICS also encourages the adoption of the tabletop exercise as a drill intended to demonstrate the working and communication relationships of the functions found within the HICS. Organizational plan.

Command School TTX is a leading nationally recognized developer and facilitator of emergency preparedness and response tabletop exercises. The tabletop exercise prepares hospital administrators and staff to respond to critical incidents by providing the basic technical and conceptual skill practice necessary to take control, supervise and manage fast breaking critical incidents.

Command School TTX facilitators are incident-tested, cross-discipline professionals who will help develop the skills that are applicable to most critical incidents.

In any of the all-hazard incidents to which your staff may have to respond, they will have to interact and communicate with emergency responders and community shareholders. Hands-on response exercising in accordance with the principles of HICS, the Incident Command System
(ICS) and the National Incident Management System (NIMS) helps
achieve a desired incident outcome.

Introduce the unique Command School tabletop exercise facilitation into your annual emergency preparedness calendar. Pre-paredness learning is enhanced with unique hands-on features and a scale replica of a hospital campus. Your team will learn to respond to all-hazards ... before it happens!

YOUR TEAM WILL LEARN:

  • Traditional supervisory role vs. HICS incident command characteristics.

  • Identifying specific actions for on- scene commanders at critical incidents.

  • Recognizing specific characteristics of critical incidents.

  • Duties and responsibilities of incident commanders. Activating HICS.

  • Reveal planning weaknesses.

  • Reveal resource gaps.

  • Clarify roles and responsibilities.

  • Improve individual performance.

  • Build the confidence of hospital administrators and staff.

  • Develop proficiency and confidence in participants.

  • Test plans & systems in "live" situations.

  • Increase general awareness of skills and needs.

  • Foster cooperation among local responders and hospital resources.


     


 

  FIRE/RESCUE
  LAW ENFORCEMENT
  EMS
  SCHOOLS
  HOSPITALS
  AIRPORTS


 
  Sample Scenario
 
(Natural Disaster)

  Sample Situation Manual

  The ICS Structure

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