Development of a Training Curriculum for Public Health Preparedness

Rottman, Steven J.; Shoaf, Kimberley; Dorian, Alina

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“…This resulted in 79 full-text articles; 4 full-text articles could not be retrieved, and 37 did not meet the inclusion criteria, leaving 38 references for analysis ( Figure 1). 2,4,5,[14][15][16] Twenty-seven references were peer-review articles, 2,5,[14][15][16]21,22,24,[27][28][29][31][32][33][34]36,37,[38][39][40]42,43,45,[48][49][50][51] one was a book chapter, 4 4 were reports, 25,26,41,44 and 6 were documents available on the websites of relevant organizations. 20,23,30,35,46,47 Articles were referred to a single sector references.…”

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Core Competencies in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance: A Systematic Review

Gallardo

Djalali

Foletti

et al. 2015

Disaster med. public health prep.

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Disaster response demands a large workforce covering diverse professional sectors. Throughout this article, we illustrate the results of a systematic review of peer-reviewed studies to identify existing competency sets for disaster management and humanitarian assistance that would serve as guidance for the development of a common disaster curriculum. A systematic review of English-language articles was performed on PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, ERIC, and Cochrane Library. Studies were included if reporting competency domains, abilities, knowledge, skills, or attitudes for professionals involved disaster relief or humanitarian assistance. Exclusion criteria included abstracts, citations, case studies, and studies not dealing with disasters or humanitarian assistance. Thirty-eight papers were analyzed. Target audience was defined in all articles. Five references (13%) reported cross-sectorial competencies. Most of the articles (81.6%) were specific to health care. Eighteen (47%) papers included competencies for at least 2 different disciplines and 18 (47%) for different professional groups. Nursing was the most widely represented cadre. Eighteen papers (47%) defined competency domains and 36 (94%) reported list of competencies. Nineteen articles (50%) adopted consensus-building to define competencies, and 12 (31%) included competencies adapted to different professional responsibility levels. This systematic review revealed that the largest number of papers were mainly focused on the health care sector and presented a lack of agreement on the terminology used for competency-based definition. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2015;9:430-439) Key Words: disaster medicine education, competency-based education, professionalization, humanitarian aid G lobally, 2013 was characterized by 330 natural disasters.1 The poorest countries are typically the most affected, with a total of 5 low-or lower-middle income countries among the top 10 in terms of disaster mortality. Aid workers are often required to operate within disrupted political systems with no pre-existing disaster plans 2 and to perform tasks that fall outside their area of expertise, especially the management of refugees and internally displaced populations, communicable diseases, and the lack of critical resources.3 Lessons learned from relevant disasters-such as Haiti (2010), the Asian tsunami (2004), the Haiyan Typhoon (2013), and the current Ebola virus disease tragedies in West Africacall for attention to the limited capability of foreign medical teams to meet challenges posed by complex emergencies. [4][5][6][7][8][9] These concerns have prompted the international community to devise means for the development of both competence and professionalism within the humanitarian assistance sector. 4,6 Disaster response demands a large workforce with diverse professional disciplines, subspecialty categories, and levels of professional experience and cultural expertise. Regardless of their professional background, education for personnel operating i...

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Core Competencies in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance: A Systematic Review

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Djalali

Foletti

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Disaster med. public health prep.

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“…The focus of many of the studies is concentrated on the public health infrastructure leaving a gap in the literature related to preparing general health care practitioners and more specifically nurses.Six studies targeted efforts for delivering emergency preparedness education and training to public health professionals. Two of the studies utilized a pretest-posttest design to evaluate the outcomes of general emergency preparedness training programs Rottman, Shoaf, and Dorian (2005). conducted a study based on the Adult Learning Theory to evaluate the knowledge gained by public health workers in Southern California after a two day competency-based emergency preparedness training program in spring 2003 and fall 2004.…”

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Assessing the Learning Needs of South Carolina Nurses by Exploring Their Perceived Knowledge of Emergency Preparedness: Evaluation of a Tool

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Sekula²,

Colbert³

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“…One report of a two-day public health preparedness training suggested improved participant pre-vs post-test scores and improved confidence regarding participants' likely roles in an actual event. 4 An Australian report of an audiovisual presentation of the hospital disaster plan and simulated exercise improved participants' confidence in disaster preparedness and their pre-vs post-test scores, although the post-test pass rate was only 50%. 5 Idrose et al found that the combination of lecture, simulation, and video training effectively improved participants' knowledge of disaster plans significantly.…”

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Managing Multiple-Casualty Incidents: A Rural Medical Preparedness Training Assessment

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Colucci

Allington

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Prehosp. Disaster med.

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Objective: The objectives of this study were to develop a novel training model for using mass-casualty incident (MCI) scenarios that trained hospital and prehospital staff together using Microsoft Visio, images from Google Earth and icons representing first responders, equipment resources, local hospital emergency department bed capacity, and trauma victims. The authors also tested participants' knowledge in the areas of communications, incident command systems (ICS), and triage. Methods: Participants attended Managing Multiple-Casualty Incidents (MCIs), a oneday training which offered pre-and post-tests, two one-hour functional exercises, and four distinct, one-hour didactic instructional periods. Two MCI functional exercises were conducted. The one-hour trainings focused on communications, National Incident Management Systems/Incident Command Systems (NIMS/ICS) and professional roles and responsibilities in NIMS and triage. The trainings were offered throughout communities in western Montana. First response resource inventories and general manpower statistics for fire, police, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and emergency department hospital bed capacity were determined prior to MCI scenario construction. A test was given prior to and after the training activities. Results: A total of 175 firefighters, EMS, law enforcement, hospital personnel or other first-responders completed the pre-and post-test. Firefighters produced higher baseline scores than all other disciplines during pre-test analysis. At the end of the training all disciplines demonstrated significantly higher scores on the post-test when compared with their respective baseline averages. Improvements in post-test scores were noted for participants from all disciplines and in all didactic areas: communications, NIMS/ICS, and triage. Conclusions: Mass-casualty incidents offer significant challenges for prehospital and emergency room workers. Fire, Police and EMS personnel must secure the scene, establish communications, define individuals' roles and responsibilities, allocate resources, triage patients, and assign transport priorities. After emergency department notification and in advance of arrival, emergency department personnel must assess available physical resources and availability and type of manpower, all while managing patients already under their care. Mass-casualty incident trainings should strengthen the key, individual elements essential to well-coordinated response such as communications, incident management system and triage. The practice scenarios should be matched to the specific resources of the community. The authors also believe that these trainings should be provided with all disciplines represented to eliminate training ''silos,'' to allow for discussion of overlapping jurisdictional or organizational responsibilities, and to facilitate team building.

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Development of a Training Curriculum for Public Health Preparedness

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Core Competencies in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance: A Systematic Review

Core Competencies in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance: A Systematic Review

Assessing the Learning Needs of South Carolina Nurses by Exploring Their Perceived Knowledge of Emergency Preparedness: Evaluation of a Tool

Managing Multiple-Casualty Incidents: A Rural Medical Preparedness Training Assessment

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