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This project, a collaboration of many
partners in South Carolina, addresses the training needs of
practicing healthcare professionals for bioterrorism and public
health emergency event recognition and response.
Emergency preparedness and response issues include all forms of terrorism, natural disasters and tragic accidents. The goal of this program is to equip the health care workforce with the knowledge, skills, abilities and core competencies to recognize indications of a terrorist event; meet the acute care needs of patients, including pediatric and other vulnerable populations; participate in a coordinated, multidisciplinary response to emergencies; and rapidly and effectively alert the public health system if such an event was to occur.
Originally funded
in 2003, the Disaster Preparedness and Response Training Network was refunded in 2005 through a $3.8 million, three-year grant from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR). Since 2008, the Network has continued to offer courses to healthcare professionals and institutions across the state on a discounted fee for service basis. Learn more about avialable courses here.
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“Critically Ill but contaminated patients could arrive at your hospital any of the day or night with no warning following an industrial, agricultural, or transportation accident or a deliberate act of terrorism. Are you prepared to provide the care they need without endangering your staff or chancing the shut-down of your facility because of chemical or radiological contamination?”
Please join South Carolina AHEC for one of our hospital emergency response training courses being held throughout the state. This course is believed to be the first instance of a statewide training effort utilizing a national standard to adapt the methods of the industrial and public safety hazardous materials (Haz-Mat) team for hospital personnel to perform in the hospital environment for the benefit of contaminated patients and to protect hospital patients, staff, and facilities.
Don't miss this opportunity to participate in a statewide program for disaster preparedness and response training. For more information on this program please click here.
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This resource is a collaborative effort that allows ASPR grant awardees to catalog and share material for training and curricular development in the area of Bioterrorism and Disaster Preparedness.
Material can be browsed by author, category, product type, format and target audience. In addition, it has full Google search capability.
All material produced through ASPR grant funding is considered to be within the public domain.
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Don't miss this opportunity to
participate in a statewide program for disaster
preparedness and response training. Additional information about South Carolina AHEC's mission can be found at www.scahec.net. |
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Originally Funded by ASPR Grant #T01HP01418 |
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