practicize the plan building a progressive exercise program
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Practicize the Plan
Building a Progressive Exercise Program
Why
• Requirement
• Helps you determine readiness and gaps
• History is not kind
• Expectation of your residents and family
What
What
Where to Start
• Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)
–This is your foundation for exercising
Ensuring a Successful Drill
• Emergency Operations Plan
• Administration Committed
• Engagement of Participants
Expectations
• Staff Drill – - test efficiency , knowledge, and
response of personnel
• Unannounced Staff Drill – -measure staff responsiveness
Exercise the Survey
• Hospitals do this.
Steps in Planning
• 1. Synchronize training and EOP
• 2. Set up Exercise Design Team
• 3.Identify Key Roles: Objectives
• 4.Determine type of Exercise and Date
Steps in Planning
• 5. Identify partners and scope
• 6. Conduct exercise
• 7. Evaluate the exercise (AAR)
• 8. Improvement Plan (IP) and Track Progress
What to test: Objective
• SMART– Specific who is supposed to act– Measurable how will you know it’s
met– Attainable can it be done– Realistic how far must the plan go– Time period for
accomplishment
Examples
• Assess, Record, Evaluate, Demonstrate
• Use “Action” words
• Describe the communication method to contact family members and local Emergency Management.
• Describe the response for a “bomb threat” when called in.
Keep it Simple
• Plan
• Train
• Exercise
Planning Practice
• A threatening phone call to your facility
• “ I am coming to get even because you fired me.”
What Should Happen
Turn the actions into SMART Objectives
– Specific– Measurable– Attainable– Realistic– Time Bound
Scenario 2
• You receive a call from your EM “advising you of a large forest fire 10 miles to the north”.
• Specific• Measurable• Attainable• Realistic• Time
Building The Scenario
• You receive a follow up call 2 hours later that the fire has changed directions and heading your way.
• Do our objectives change???
Fire Drills
• Incorporate Shelter in Place and Evacuation
• Incorporate a specific action (drill)• Calls out , different communications,
Evacuation equipment, MOU verification,