Ebola Preparedness: Emergency Department Training Modules
On Demand
Course Overview
Course Quality Rating
TBD
Course Description
This course, a 4 module series, is provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This course is designed to help train Emergency Department (ED) staff to prepare and evaluate whether or not a patient might have Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Staff members should use this information to follow the 3 steps within the “Identify, Isolate, and Inform” strategy. CDC recommends that staff members screen all patients with travel histories, exposure, or clinical symptoms that might suggest the person could have EVD.
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Target Audience
This course is designed for Emergency department (ED) staff and other public health/clinical staff (e.g. Nurses, Physicians and Other Clinicians, Emergency Responders / Receivers, Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, Emergency Medical Services).
Learning Objectives
Having completed this course, the learner will be able to:
Determine risks to the health of the jurisdiction
Coordinate training or guidance to ensure community engagement in preparedness efforts
Determine the public health role in mass care operations
Identify responder safety and health risks
Identify safety and personal protective needs
Coordinate with partners to facilitate risk-specific safety and health training
Monitor responder safety and health actions
Council of Linkages Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (COL)/COL Tier(s)
None listed
Professional/Disciplinary Competencies
Public Health Preparedness Capabilities:
Community Preparedness
Function 1: Determine risks to the health of the jurisdiction
Function 4: Coordinate training or guidance to ensure community engagement in preparedness efforts
Mass Care
Function 1: Determine public health role in mass care operations
Responder Safety and Health
Function 1: Identify responder safety and health risks
Function 2: Identify safety and personal protective needs
Function 3: Coordinate with partners to facilitate risk-specific safety and health training
Format
Online/ Self-study
Credit /CEU
None available
Duration
1 hr.
Specifications
None listed
Course Publication Date
March 19, 2015
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