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Pandemic Exercise Drill for Hospitals: Preventing Flu Pandemic Pandemonium

Learn how to create and execute a pandemic drill.

Coronavirus, Ebola, Lassa Fever, MERS, SARS, Influenza; where is the next pandemic coming from? Unpredictability is the new norm in today's threat environment. Because we are asking the wrong questions precisely, we are getting the wrong answers precisely; and as a result, we are creating false positives. Unless we change the decision making paradigm, we will continue to get false positives and find ourselves reacting to events and suffering the consequences of bad decision making. Disruptive events are occurring with increased frequency and can sometimes be extremely difficult to predict; with the potential to have significant, long lasting impacts. Conducting periodic exercises, drills and simulations allow decision makers to consider proactively how their organization may react to a disruptive event like a pandemic. Based on the failure point methodology, we can identify, define and assess various dependencies and assumptions. The methodology facilitates a nonbiased and critical analysis of response strategies to better validate and understand our plans and the interfaces with other entities (public/private). Health care professionals face a daunting challenge - how to effectively respond and manage hospital operations during a pandemic; and continue to provide care for nonpandemic related patients. Most hospital personnel do not have the skills required to develop and effectively implement a successful drill and exercise program. This topic is designed to help hospital personnel responsible for developing and implementing a drill/exercise program with the knowledge and tools required to create realistic simulations, document and track performance and improve existing plans, policies and procedures.

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Creating Effective Drills and Exercises

  • Steps for Drill/Exercise Development
  • Three Levels of Complexity
  • Getting Executive Buy-in and Participation

Conducting Effective Drills and Exercises

  • Player and Control Team Selection
  • Pre-Drill/Exercise Communications
  • Building Realism Into Execution

Post-Drill/Exercise Activities

  • Initial Critiques
  • Written Reports
  • Ensuring Follow-up
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This course was last revised on March 23, 2020.

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This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.

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Geary W. Sikich

Geary W. Sikich

Logical Management Systems Corp.

  • Principal with Logical Management Systems, Corp., a consulting and executive education firm with a focus on enterprise risk management and issues analysis; the firm's web site is www.logicalmanagement.com
  • Prior to founding Logical Management Systems, Corp. in 1985 he held a number of senior operational management positions in a variety of industry sectors
  • Served as an officer in the U.S. Army; responsible for the initial concept design and testing of the U.S. Army's National Training Center and other intelligence related activities
  • Active in executive education, where he has developed and delivered courses in enterprise risk management, contingency planning, performance management and analytics
  • Frequent speaker on business continuity issues business performance management
  • Author of over 450 published articles and four books, his latest being Protecting Your Business in Pandemic, published in June 2008 (available on Amazon.com)
  • Frequent speaker on high profile continuity issues, having developed and validated over 4,500 plans and conducted over 475 seminars and workshops worldwide for over 100 clients representing the spectrum of private and public sector operations
  • His latest podcast can be found at https://go.ranenetwork.com/ranepodcast/coronavirus
  • M.Ed. degree in counseling and guidance, University of Texas at El Paso; B.S. degree in criminology, Indiana State University
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