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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 11.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Disaster Med. 2012 Summer;7(3):175–188. doi: 10.5055/ajdm.2012.0093

TABLE 2.

CHPTER COURSE SCHEDULE

Hour Event
7:45–8 AM Pretest and Consent
Welcome
Online material (prior to arrival)
Pretest and Self Evaluation
Online learning material
On Arrival Pretest (if not already complete)
Consent forms
Sign in sheet
8–8:55 AM Module 1: The Center for Health Professional Training and Emergency Response, CHPTER (50 minutes)

  • ● What is at Risk? Clinical Disaster Preparedness: healthcare training gap

  • ● The CHPTER Model: a Regional Disaster Response Training Network

  • ● What to expect?

  • ● Schedule

  • ● Sim scenario expectations

  • ● If you learn nothing else: BE SAFE

  • ● Ensure Personal Safety Ensure Safety of Patients, Families, and Staff Follow up

  • ● Ensure Continuity of Patient Care Operations

9–9:45 AM Module 2: Mobilization: Pre-stage Planning and Clinical Teamwork (25 minute slides, 20 minute Small Group)

  • ● Define and Recognize Disaster

  • ● Stop: Establish Safety Plan

  • ● Develop Clinical Disaster Team (i. e., establish leadership, roles and duties)

  • ● Select and Don Appropriate PPE and Equipment

  • ● Optimize Teamwork and Coordinate Tasks

  • ● Module 2 Small Group Exercise (Teamwork exercise)

15 min Break/Time Buffer
10–10:45 AM Module 3: Clinical Disaster Scene Operations and Communications (25 min slides, 20 min Small Group)

  • ● Understand Importance and Principles of Hospital Incident Command (HICS)

  • ● Establish Operations Command (i.e., assume team roles)

  • ● Establish Communications with Health Care Authority; Activate Healthcare System’s EOP/ICS

  • ● Appropriately Report Scene Information and Needs (i.e., maintain situational awareness)

  • ● Optimize Teamwork and Coordinate Tasks

  • ● Module 3 Small Group Exercise (Communications)

15 min Break/Time Buffer
11–11:45 AM Module 4: Protect and Preserve Human Life (25 minutes slides, 20 minutes Small Group)

  • ● Accurately Assess, Reassess and Care for Patients (START Triage)

  • ● Care for and Communicate with the Worried Well

  • ● Understand Ethical Implications of Health Care During a Disaster (Values foster by Triage)

  • ● Module 4 Small Group Exercise (Triage)

12–1 PM Lunch
1–4 PM Multi-actor Simulated Disaster
CHPTER’s scenario “Influenza-Like Illness”
Education Intervention: Debriefing
Repeat Scenario
4–5 PM Post Test and Course Assessment
After Completion of Mass Casualty Scenario

  • ● Post test (online)

  • ● Course Evaluation (online)
4–6 months after Course

  • ● Repeat Post Test and Self Evaluation