May 2, 2025
Clinical Preparedness Workshops
The Clinical Emergency Preparedness Workshops are designed to equip front-line clinicians with the knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary to effectively respond to large-scale emergencies and disasters. Developed in collaboration with health care coalition members, these workshops will focus on key areas essential to patient care continuity during crises.
Topics include:
- Managing orthopedic injuries,
- Utilizing laboratory and imaging services,
- Addressing the needs of long-term care facilities,
- Ensuring patient care during cyber events and extended outages,
- Treating complex medical patients,
- Responding to infectious disease outbreaks, and
- Caring for pediatric patients in emergency scenarios.
Each session is tailored for clinicians across all patient care roles, ensuring a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to emergency preparedness and response.
Participants will have opportunities for hands-on skills learning, allowing them to practice critical techniques and decision-making in realistic emergency scenarios. These interactive sessions will enhance confidence and competence in responding to diverse clinical challenges during disasters.
Clinical Preparedness Workshop Dates:
- May 15, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Preparedness for Imaging and Laboratory Services
- Focuses on optimizing diagnostics in resource-limited environments, ensuring efficient blood supply management and transfusion protocols, and improving the use of imaging technologies such as X-ray, CT, and ultrasound for trauma and mass casualty triage.
- May 20, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Long-term Care in Disasters
- Designed to enhance collaboration between long-term care clinicians, hospital providers and EMS in managing long-term care patients during disasters.
- May 29, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Orthopedic Injuries in Disasters
- Designed to prepare front-line clinicians to assess, stabilize and manage musculoskeletal injuries during large-scale emergencies. The session will provide clinicians with the knowledge and hands-on experience needed to deliver effective orthopedic care in large-scale and resource limited environments.
- June 3, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Pediatric Clinical Preparedness
- Designed to equip frontline hospital and EMS clinicians with the knowledge, skills and confidence to effectively manage pediatric patients during disasters.
- Participants will engage in real-world case scenarios and interactive sessions to enhance their ability to provide high-quality pediatric care in mass casualty incidents, natural disasters and other emergency situations.
Cost: Free
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