Browse Items (68 total)

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  NETEC - Online Course - Internal Communication

  Tags Biosafety, Communications, CONOPS, R-Lead, R-PM, Special Pathogens, Staff Support, Staffing, Staffing Model
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Personnel Management
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-09-18
  Description: This course will provide information on communication considerations when a facility is notified they will be receiving a patient with Ebola or other special pathogen. This will include information on communicating with staff, patients already in…

• Identification and Characterization of Failures in Infectious Agent Transmission Precaution Practices in Hospitals

  Tags Contact Transmission, Donning and Doffing, Droplet Transmission, Infection Prevention and Control, Occupational Exposure, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Staff Support, Staffing
  Creator: Sarah L. Krein, PhD, RN; Jeanmarie Mayer, MD; Molly Harrod, PhD; Lauren E. Weston, MPH; Lynn Gregory, NP; Laura Petersen, MHSA; Matthew H. Samore, MD; Frank A. Drews, PhD
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-08-01
  Description: Using personal protective equipment (PPE) and transmission-based precautions are primary strategies for reducing the transmission of infectious agents.

• Ebola: Knowledge resources for responders

  Tags Communications, CONOPS, Decontamination, Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Emergency Department, Emergency Management, EMS, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, International Response, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Occupational Health, Patient Care, Patient Transport, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Physical Infrastructure, Pre-hospital Transport, Public Health, R-T&E, Special Pathogens, Staffing, Staffing Model, Training, Waste
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-07-05
  Description: Decision-makers and frontline responders will find a set of resources on Ebola virus disease here. These resources can be used as refreshers for experienced personnel or as an introduction to the topic for everyone else. Most of the materials are…
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  POLICY-Guidelines for Nurses On-Call in the SCDU (####)

  Tags Occupational Health, R-Lead, R-PM, Staffing, Staffing Model
  Creator: Emory
  Subject: Personnel Management
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2018-02-12
  Description: Resources - National Ebola Training and Education Center - Emory Protocols
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  POLICY-Activation Compensation Program in the SCDU (####)

  Tags Activation, R-Lead, R-PM, Staff Rotations, Staffing, Staffing Model
  Creator: Emory
  Subject: Personnel Management
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2018-02-12
  Description: Resources - National Ebola Training and Education Center - Emory Protocols

• Enacting high reliability principles while caring for people with Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Fitness for Duty, Infection Prevention and Control, Nursing, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Personnel Management, R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Site Managers, Staff Retention, Staff Rotation Schedules, Staff Support, Staffing, Staffing Model, Trained Observer, Treatment and Care, Waste
  Creator: Jennings B. M., Yeager K. A., Feistritzer N. R., Gullatte M. M., Martyn K. K.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-05-18
  Description: Fear surrounds Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) because it is highly infectious. Yet members of the Serious Communicable Diseases Unit (SCDU) at Emory University Hospital (EUH) had to overcome that fear when caring for patients with EVD.

• Design Strategies to Improve Healthcare Worker Safety in Biocontainment Units: Learning from Ebola Preparedness

  Tags Biosafety, Example, Occupational Health, R-Lead, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staff Support, Staffing, Trained Observer
  Creator: DuBose, J. R., Z. Matić, M. F. W. Sala, J. M. Mumma, C. S. Kraft, L. M. Casanova, K. Erukunuakpor, F. T. Durso, V. L. Walsh, P. Shah, C. M. Zimring and J. T. Jacob.
  Subject: Personnel Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-06-18
  Description: To identify ways that the built environment may support or disrupt safe doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE) in biocontainment units (BCU).

  Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.

• Leadership: Mitigation, Preparation, Response, and Recovery

  Tags R-PPE, Staff Support, Staffing, Staffing Model
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018
  Description: Past in Person Course Presentation - Determine methods and tools to consider when developing staffing models. Identify training and competency tools and demonstrate how to apply them to sustain readiness. Define fun and interactive strategies to…
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  PPE Training the Trainer

  Tags Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-T&E, Staff Support, Staffing
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2017
  Description: Past In Person Course Presentation.Objectives: Review key concepts of personal protective equipment (PPE). Clarify competency: Theory, Practice and Use. Discuss strategies for developing PPE courses. Discuss ways of maintaining ongoing PPE…
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  Unit Employee Expectations

  Tags Communications, Leadership Toolbox, Preparedness Tools, R-Lead, R-PM, R-T&E, Site Managers, Staffing, Staffing Model
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-25
  Description: Leadership Toolbox, Preparedness: Nebraska Biocontainment Unity Employee Expectations