COMMAND STAFF
Organizes and gives strategic direction for hospital incident management and support activities. Approves the Incident Action Plan.
Who is the Incident Commander?
Organizes and directs the service and support activities needed to ensure the material needs for the hospital's response to the incident are available when needed.
Who is the Logistics Section Chief?
Assess the situation, activate the Hospital Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) and applicable Incident Specific Plans/Annexes.
What is the first step after announcement of a disaster/emergency?
Any situation that causes a disruption to normal hospital operations.
What is reason to activate the Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)?
Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
What are the four phases of Emergency Management?
Who is the Safety Officer?
Monitors financial assets, payment, recovery, and costs accrued during incident and implements reimbursement activities.
Who is the Finance/Administration Section Chief?
An acronym used to identify the characteristics of good objectives and identifies who should do what, under what conditions, according to which standards.
What is SMART?
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-Bound
Upon notification of a disaster, this person would be responsible for initiating the Hospital Command Center and Incident Command.
Who is the Administrator On-Call (AOC)?
An integrated approach to emergency preparedness planning that focuses on capacities and capabilities that are critical to preparedness for a full spectrum of emergencies or disasters.
What is an all-hazards approach?
Communicates IC approved information with internal and external agencies, including hospital personnel, visitors, and families, and the news media.
Who is the Public Information Officer?
Gathers and analyzes all incident related data regarding operations and resource management. Initiates recovery planning and prepares the Incident Action Plan (IAP).
Who is the Planning Section Chief?
These Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) forms provide clear position descriptions and checklists for each HICS designated position.
What is a Job Action Sheet?
The system that the Emergency Department uses to categorize and prioritize incoming patients.
START Triage and JumpSTART Triage for Pediatric Patients
Summary of status of incident situation and allocated resources
What is HICS Form 201?
Functions as the incident contact person in the Hospital Command Center for external agencies.
Who is the Liaison Officer?
Develops and implements strategies to carry out all tactical activities and the objectives as outlined on the Incident Action Plan (IAP).
Who is the Operations Section Chief?
This process is used to manage incidents, helps synchronize operations and ensure they support incident objectives while providing a consistent rhythm and structure to incident management.
What is an Incident Action Plan (IAP)?
Inform staff, help initiate processes, assess/free up beds, initiate labor pool, determine the need for controlled access, and ensure the Disaster Medical Coordination Center (DMCC) has been contacted.
What should Incident Command do for a patient surge?
An operational risk assessment to prioritize hazards, safety, and health issues, and to assign the mitigation activities.
Responsible for ensuring that assigned incident personnel are fed, have communications, medical support, and transportation as needed to meet incident objectives.
Who is the Logistics Section Chief?
The process in a multi-agency incident of establishing a common set of objectives without losing agency authority, responsibility, or accountability.
What is Unified Command?
The following positions have the ____________:
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Administrator On-Call (AOC)
Chief Clinical Officer (CCO)
Emergency Department Physician
Emergency Department Charge Nurse
Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
Rural Health Clinic Manager
What is the Authority to Activate?
Records information concerning patient disposition during an evacuation or disaster.
What is HICS Form 255 Master Patient Evacuation Tracking?