Browse Items (26 total)

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  Activation Staff Roles

  Tags Activation, Inform, Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU), Personnel Management, R-Lead, R-PM, Staff Rotations, Staffing, Staffing Model, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
  Subject: Personnel Management
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2018-06-01
  Description: Policies and Procedures Manual: To provide guidance for staffing and operating the NBU during periods of activation.
  
  Policy number 1363

• Advancing Preparedness for Highly Hazardous Contagious Diseases: Admitting 10 Simulated Patients with MERS-CoV

  Tags Exercises and Drills, Intake, MERS-CoV, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Public Health, R-T&E, Respiratory Pathogen, Special Pathogens, Staffing, Staffing Model, Surge, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Vasa, A., P. W. Smith, M. Schwedhelm, T. J. Cieslak, J. Lowe, C. J. Kratochvil, E. L. Beam, K. Boulter and A. Hewlett
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-08-01
  Description: The Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016 highlighted the need for the development of a more robust healthcare infrastructure in the United States to provide isolation care for patients infected with a highly hazardous contagious disease.
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  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): CDC's Response to the West African Ebola Epidemic

  Tags Autoclave, Communications, CONOPS, Decontamination, Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Emergency Department, Emergency Management, EMS, Federal, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, 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-PPE, Special Pathogens, Staffing, Staffing Model, Training, Waste
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2024-04-23
  Description: U.S. Healthcare Workers and Settings | Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever | CDC
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  Clinical care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the United States

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Staffing, Staffing Model, Therapeutics
  Creator: Lyon, G. M., A. K. Mehta, J. B. Varkey, K. Brantly, L. Plyler, A. K. McElroy, C. S. Kraft, J. S. Towner, C. Spiropoulou, U. Stroher, T. M. Uyeki, B. S. Ribner and U. Emory Serious Communicable Diseases
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-12-18
  Description: West Africa is currently experiencing the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in history.

• Clinical Management of Patients with Ebola Virus Disease in High-Resource Settings

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Staffing, Staffing Model, Therapeutics
  Creator: Marshall Lyon, G., A. K. Mehta and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-06-11
  Description: Like most viral illnesses in humans, supportive care of the patient is the mainstay of clinical care for patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD).

• Ebola virus disease: Clinical presentation, prognosis and treatment/Maladie à virus Ebola : présentation clinique, aspects pronostiques et principes thérapeutiques

  Tags Diagnosis, Ebola, Epidemiology, Français, French, Outbreaks, Outcomes, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staffing, Staffing Model, Therapeutics, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: M. Aletti, H. Savini, C. Ficko, J. Bordes, A. Cambon, M. Billhot, G. Velut, et al.
  Subject: Contenu Français
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-03-01
  Description: La présentation de la maladie à virus Ebola est protéiforme. Le spectre clinique va de formes gravissimes avec défaillances polyviscérales et décès en quelques jours à des formes paucisymptomatiques voire peut-être même asymptomatiques.

• Ebola: Knowledge resources for responders

  Tags Archived, 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…

• Emory University Protocols

  Tags Autoclave, Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Emergency Department, Emergency Management, EMS, Example, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Occupational Health, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Physical Infrastructure, R-PPE, Regional Treatment Center, Special Pathogens, Staffing, Staffing Model, Waste
  Creator: Emory
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-08
  Description: Resources - National Ebola Training and Education Center

  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.

• 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.

• Healthcare worker mental models of patient care tasks in the context of infection prevention and control

  Tags Healthcare Worker Safety, Infection Prevention and Control, Occupational Health, R-IPC, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staff Support, Staffing, Staffing Model
  Creator: Mumma JM, Howard-Anderson JR, Morgan JS, Schink K, Wheatley MJ, Kraft CS, Lane MA, Kaufman NH, Ayeni O, Brownsword EA, Jacob JT.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2021-09-10
  Description: Understanding the cognitive determinants of healthcare worker (HCW) behavior is important for improving the use of infection prevention and control (IPC) practices. Given a patient requiring only standard precautions, we examined the dimensions along…