HHS Response and Recovery Resources CompendiumThis is an easy to navigate, comprehensive web-based repository of HHS resources and capabilities available to Federal, State, local, territorial and tribal stakeholders before, during, and after public health and medical incidents. The resources in this repository may also be useful for public health and medical emergency management officials. Each topic contains a list of the major HHS capabilities, products and services that support that function, a brief description of each and information on accessing them.This site, owned and managed by HHS, is a general info hub that links up with almost every government agency that could play a role in a public health emergency. This includes public health websites in all 50 states (which I like). I spent a lot of time browsing this website during my first 6 months in emergency preparedness, and recommend that any folks new (or curious) to the EP field to do the same.
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Public Health Emergencies There's a lot of great information on the National Frameworks and Legal Authorities that enable EP to exist as a public resource. Clinicians may also benefit from the landing page dedicated to responder safety, mental health, and CBRNE response.
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UPMC Center for Health SecurityUPMC puts out some of the BEST content for health security nerds and is one of the few email newsletters that I will stop everything to read. Go here to subscribe to their daily Health Security Headlines, weekly Preparedness Pulsepoints, and/or Clinicians' Biosecurity News.
NACCHO Preparedness Blog |
NACCHO is always a solid go-to if you want to know what other states are doing with their preparedness funds. They also do a good job of posting free webinars/E-Learning activities as well as templates, documents, and presentations that help get you started if you're out of innovative ideas. Their archive under tools and resources is extensive...
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ASPR TRACIE
ASPR TRACIE has three complementary domains:
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DomPrep Journal
DomPrep is a think-tank organization for the preparedness community. I subscribe to their weekly brief email newsletters and appreciate the DPJ perspective on current events ranging from police shootings to vaccine trials. You can tour the homepage here to see the list of topics they write about, or you can go straight to the Public Health Domestic Preparedness page. Content can be viewed via downloadable reports, articles, audio-video clips, podcast interviews, webinars, and listserv newsletters, which is nice for those who already suffer from computer-induced eye strain.
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Here is a complication of all sources of Emergency and Disaster Health Information from the U.S. Government.
RAND
The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges and is, in my opinion, one of the best sites for free content on disasters and emergencies. They also have a page dedicated to World News and Events related to Terrorism and Homeland Security, which helps provide broader context for the activities performed locally.
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Active Shooter in healthcare setting: Run. Hide. Fight.
An active shooter is defined as an individual who is actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in the hospital or on the hospital campus. In most cases active shooters use a firearm(s) and display no pattern or method for selection of their victims. In some cases active shooters use other weapons and/or improvised explosive devices to cause additional victims and act as an impediment to police and emergency responders. You can read more about the Run. Hide. Fight concept here.
Additionally, a new training video from the MESH Coalition shows what an active shooter situation would be like inside a healthcare facility. The most important component is to help clinicians realize that abandoning their patients in order to seek safety is not only appropriate, but is the only way they will be able to care for victims afterwards. GHA911 also has a guidance document for Active Shooter Planning in the Healthcare Setting.
General EPR Just-In-Time Training Sites
These sites offer a variety of FREE continuing ed, Just-in-time, and other general training for public health professionals.
Nursing-Specific Training and Education
These are some nurse-specific EPR trainings that I have taken and/or recommend because they are free and offer moderate to significant learning enrichment. Some of them even offer free Continuing Education credits!
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