What Emergency Preparedness Procedures?
What is Code Maroon?
During a large scale public health emergency where medication dispensing is crucial, in this event you only give medications to our employees, and their family members.
What is a Closed Point of Dispensing or sometimes called a Closed Pod?
A temporary management system used to manage and coordinate clinic activities during an emergency.
What is Incident Command System (ICS)?
Local and national incident management system incident command center, emergency respondents such as EMS and law enforcement.
What are government agencies we coordinate with in response to preparedness for emergencies.
there are seven of these in at the back of this plan?
What are appendices?
This codes states that the Safety Officer or designee will make sure that all staff, clients and visitors are relocated to the lowest level of the building free from windows and doors that lead outside.
What is Code Black?
A Closed point of dispensing includes these specific types of providers: physicians, dentists, pharmacists, podiatrists, nurse practitioners, and other licensed health care professionals authorized.
Who are the personnel authorized to dispense medications in accordance with Georgia Laws?
This includes developing a plan to address how the provider will meet the needs of patients and residents if essential services breakdown as a result of a disaster.
What is Preparedness?
This key role determines if we will continue to see patients, become a triage center, a family gathering area, or other solution in support of the medical community.
Who is the CEO?
This Appendix helps you track patients.
Under this code you would fill out a call checklist while on the phone.
What is Code Yellow?
A location where the general public goes to receive emergency medications from public health officials.
What is an Open or Public POD?
A pre-planned exercise that enables policy, procedures, and performance testing.
What is a Disaster Drill
this key staff communicates with County Public Health Dept. for public health threats. Determines the disaster response clinical staffing needs, provides clinicians with updates on standards or the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of public health threats.
Who is the Director of Nursing?
This appendix contains steps to ensure safety of staff, visitors and patients during a fire.
What is Appendix A : Incident Action Plan:fire Emergency?
In this code, all persons are to avoid the container with the waste or the contaminated area.
What is Code Orange?
This person should be on premise at all time when medications are present.
Who is the security personnel?
Plans and actions necessary to continue essential business functions and services and ensure continuation of decision-making even through primary facilities may be unavailable due to an emergency.
What is COOP ( Continuity of Operations)?
this position is responsible for light search and rescue to ensure all rooms are empty and trains a damage assessment team to evaluate damages after a disaster.
Who is the Safety Officer?
this Appendix has a list you created to contact all your staff.
What is Appendix D: Staff Call Back List?
What are codes?
This is where you would find the following information during an event: Name, DOB, Medical Questions, medication given, and medication label affixed.
What is the medication dispensing form?
Pre-established procedures that guide how an organization and staff perform certain tasks. These are often presented in the form of checklists or job action sheets.
What is Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)?
This position is responsible for being familiar with evacuation procedures and routes for their area. Participating in Clinic training and exercises, understanding their roles and responsibilities in plans for response to and recovery from disaster.
Who is ALL clinic staff?
This is the most important Appendix in the set. It contains emergency numbers for staff to contact the emergency management team/utilities/EMA.
What is Appendix B: Emergency Contact List Key Agencies.