HICS
Joint Commission Compliance
Emergency Management
Acronyms
100

This is the only position that must be activated during an Incident Command

What is the Incident Commander?

100

This identifies and prioritizes hazards to our facilities.

What is the hazard vulnerability assessment?

100

These are the 4 phases of Emergency Management. 

What is Preparedness, Mitigation, Response, and Recovery?

100

HICS

What is hospital incident command

200

These are the 4 Command Staff Positions

What is the Public Information Officer, Safety Officer, Medical Technical Specialist, and Liaison Officer

200

This is our documented response to disasters.

What is our Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)?

200

These are supplements to our emergency operations plan.

What are annexs?

200

IRG

What is incident response guide?

300

These the 4 General Staff Sections

What is the Operations Chief, the Planning Chief, the Logistics Chief, and the Finance Chief?

300

These are the 6 areas of focus in all drills, exercises and real events.  (Name 3)

What are resource management, utilities, patient care, safety and security, staffing, and communications?

300

This is the person authorized to implement Incident Command.  (4 choices name 2)

What are the hospital president, administrator on call, nursing supervisor, and emergency manager?


300

HVA

What is the Hazard Vulnerability Assessment

400

This is one advantage of using HICS Structure.

What is:

NIMS Compliant/ICS Structure

Specific to healthcare

Significant response resources (IAP, IRG, JOB Action sheets, HICS forms)

400
This is the strategic multi-year plan to increase preparedness and response.

What is the multi-year training and education plan.?

400

This is activated when the disaster exceeds local HCCs ability to respond or when multiple facilities are impacted by the same incident.

What is market area command?

400

JAS

What are job action sheets.?

500

This is a nationwide framework for managing incidents.

What is the National Incident Command System.?

500

These compromise an all-hazards approach. (name 2)

What are natural, man-made, technological, and medical.

500

These are strategies to resource management. (Name 1).

What is stockpile resources, establish collaboratives, and reassign non-essential resources.

500

HSEEP

What is the homeland security exercise and evaluation program?

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