Use this checklist to assess whether you’re prepared for a disaster
January 1, 2002 less than 1 minute read
Use this checklist to assess whether you’re prepared
To demonstrate your disaster preparedness during a survey with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, use the following checklist of questions developed by Michelle H. Pelling, MBA, RN, president of the ProPell Group, a health care consulting firm based in Portland, OR:
- Who will be responsible for notifying off-duty personnel?
- How will additional competent personnel be identified and accessed? Who, in addition to ED personnel, would be called to assist? What training might they need prior to the disaster so that they understand their role and are competent to assist?
- Who will take the lead in managing the response? How will they interact with communitywide agencies?
- How will security be managed for crowd control and family members?
- How will your current patients be managed? What processes for triaging and transferring will be in place?
- Will there be alternate sites within the organization where patient with less severe injuries can be triaged to and treated?
- How will patient information be controlled?
- How will critical supplies be accessed?
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