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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:
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Traditional supervisory role vs. HICS
incident command characteristics.
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Identifying specific actions for on-
scene commanders at critical incidents.
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Recognizing specific characteristics of
critical incidents.
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Duties and
responsibilities of incident commanders.
Activating HICS.
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Reveal
planning weaknesses.
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Reveal
resource gaps.
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Clarify
roles and responsibilities.
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Improve
individual performance.
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Build the
confidence of hospital administrators
and staff.
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Develop
proficiency and confidence in
participants.
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Test plans
& systems in "live" situations.
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Increase
general awareness of skills and needs.
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Foster
cooperation among local responders and
hospital resources.
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Sample
Scenario
(Natural Disaster)
Sample
Situation Manual
The ICS Structure




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