Browse Items (841 total)

• EMS & Prehospital

  Tags Donning and Doffing, Emergency Department, Emergency Management, EMS, Infection Prevention and Control, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, R-T&E, Waste
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018
  Description: Past in Person Course Presentation.Course Learning Objectives: Increase healthcare worker knowledge and understanding of serious communicable diseases (smallpox, SARS, MERS, Ebola, novel influenza). Increase understanding of standard and…
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  Special Pathogens of Concern

  Tags Infection Prevention and Control, NSPS 1, NSPS 2, NSPS 3, NSPS 4, R-T&E, Respiratory Pathogen, Special Pathogens, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018
  Description: Past in Person Course Presentation - Explore what pathogen related factors may warrant treatment in a biocontainment unit. Describe the clinical presentation of selected special pathogens or high consequence infectious diseases. 2 broad categories:…
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  PPE 101

  Tags Donning and Doffing, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-T&E
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018
  Description: Past in Person Course Presentation - Recognize components of maintaining a safe work environment. Differentiate safe and risky behavior when using PPE. Recognize safe and risky behavior in donning and doffing PPE in patient care scenarios.

• Public Health Resilience Checklist for High-Consequence Infectious Diseases-Informed by the Domestic Ebola Response in the United States

  Tags Checklist, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Sell, T. K., M. P. Shearer, D. Meyer, H. Chandler, M. Schoch-Spana, E. Thomas, D. A. Rose, E. G. Carbone and E. Toner.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-03-27
  Description: The experiences of communities that responded to confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease in the United States provide a rare opportunity for collective learning to improve resilience to future high-consequence infectious disease events.

• Determining training and education needs pertaining to highly infectious disease preparedness and response: A gap analysis survey of US emergency medical services practitioners.

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, EMS, Example, Occupational Exposure, Occupational Health, R-PM, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Le, A. B., S. A. Buehler, P. M. Maniscalco, P. Lane, L. E. Rupp, E. Ernest, D. Von Seggern, K. West, J. J. Herstein, K. C. Jelden, E. L. Beam, S. G. Gibbs and J. J. Lowe.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-03-00
  Description: The Ebola virus disease outbreak highlighted the lack of consistent guidelines and training for workers outside of hospital settings. Specifically, emergency medical services (EMS) workers, who are frequently the first professionals to evaluate…

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• 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).

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  High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) Screening Guidance

  Tags Frontline Facilities Tools, High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID), Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Intake, Mitigation Tools, NSPS 1, NSPS 2, NSPS 3, NSPS 4, R-T&E, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Minnesota Department of Health
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2019-09-11
  Description: High Consequence Infectious Disease Readiness (HCID) Binder: a. High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) Screening Guidance

• 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.
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  Health Care Coalition Operations-Based Ebola or Other Special Pathogen Toolkit

  Tags R-Lead, R-T&E
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Exercise
  Date Last Updated: 2018-07-23
  Description: Health Care Coalitions - Exercise Materials for an Operations-based Exercise for Ebola & Other Special Pathogens
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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