PREPARE

PREPARE assures residents and families that your community is ready to:

• Meet the special needs of older adults in your care
• Recognize, respond to, and mitigate both man-made and natural threats
• Take a coordinated approach to alert and involve local, state, and national agency 

Prepare senior living and long-term care workforce with the knowledge and competencies to deal with natural disasters and other public health emergencies
Readiness, recognition, and multidisciplinary response to disasters and emergencies
Educate core trainers
Produce effective senior living and long-term care workforce able to treat older adults in such emergencies
Alert the public health system of emergencies
Resources for continuing disaster preparedness education
Evaluating the program’s impact 

PREPARE consists of seven learning modules which are offered through a one-day, train-the-trainer workshop, three-part webinar series, training toolkit, or a Stand-Up Meeting Modules and Training Guide.

On-Demand Webinar Series

PREPARE Emergency Preparedness for Senior Living and Long-Term Care three-part webinar series includes the following one-hour components:

Webinar 1: Selecting the Right Plan

Key concepts include:

• Importance of emergency operations planning for senior living and long-term care care communities
• Key components of an effective emergency operations plan
• Core elements of the basic plan

Webinar 2: Identifying Hazards

Key concepts include:

• Determining hazards that pose a threat to your community
• Conducting a risk assessment for your community
• Creating hazard-specific annexes for your community’s emergency operations plan

Webinar 3: Taking Action

Key concepts include:

• Examining key functional annexes including:
  • Incident Command System
  • Required resources
  • Communications planning
  • Life safety
  • Community outreach plans
  • Property protection
  • Response and recovery

Communities participating in the webinar series receive:

• Training resources
• Participant handout of PowerPoints for distribution

To purchase these pre-recorded webinars please contact Louise Lyons at (847) 492.7433.

Train-the-Trainer Workshop 

Hosted in Evanston, IL
The train-the-trainer workshop prepares community managers and staff as PREPARE Specialists who gain the necessary knowledge and tools to teach the seven learning modules to their staff.

Workshop content includes:

Module 1: The Basic Plan

Key components include:

• Defining an Emergency Operations Plan
• Identifying the essential components of the basic plan
• Describing key areas of special considerations for senior living/long term care communities 

Module 2:  Creating Hazard-Specific Annexes

Key components include:

• Understanding key terms used in conducting risk assessments
• Determining the hazards that pose a threat to the community
• Conducting a risk assessment of the community
• Assessing their vulnerability to the identified hazards
• Creating a hazard-specific annex for the community 

Module 3: Using the Incident Command System in Senior Living and Long-Term Care

Key components include:

• Discussing the purpose and basic features of the ICS
• Identifying the key roles in the Incident Command System and responsibilities respective to each role
• Describing how the ICS model can be used in LTC during a disaster 

Module 4: Functional Annex – Infectious Disease Control and Pandemic Influenza Planning for Senior Living and Long-Term Care

Key components include:

• Describing pandemic influenza
• Explaining the issues of pandemic disasters as they relate to senior living and long-term care communities
• Discussing federal, state, and local plans for responding to a pandemic
• Outlining steps to be taken in developing a plan for responding to a pandemic in senior living and long-term care communities

Module 5: Functional Annex – Psychological First Aid

Key components include:

• Defining psychological first aid
• Discussing situations where psychological first aid should be used
• Describing the process of providing psychological first aid 

Module 6: Other Key Functional Annexes

Key components include:

• Describing critical issues in emergency operations planning
• Developing/revising key functional annexes
• Integrating bioterrorism emergency preparedness strategies into Emergency Operations Plans for senior living/long-term care communities
• Developing mechanisms to communicate and update the Emergency Operations Plan on a regular basis in the senior living/long-term care community

Module 7: Practicing the Plan – Tabletop Exercises for Disaster Preparedness in Senior Living and Long-Term Care

Key components include:

• Learning how to conduct a tabletop exercise within your SL/LTC residence
• Describing a potential disaster scenario and the issues that will need to be addressed
• Identifying gaps and weaknesses in your existing disaster preparedness plans

PREPARE Specialists workshop participants receive:

• Trainer Guide for seven learning modules
• CD of resources and templates
• Comprehensive handouts
• Laminated Incident Command System (ICS) job-action cards

Toolkits

PREPARE: Emergency Preparedness Training Toolkit

Contents include:

• Seven learning modules
• Teacher Training Guide
• Resources
• All hazard disaster plan templates
• Incident Command System (ICS) job-action cards 

PREPARE: Emergency Preparedness Stand-Up Meeting Modules and Trainer Guide

Includes:

• Condensed version of Learning Modules for use at workstation or in stand-up meetings
• Dual-sided design includes teaching suggestions
• B&W, 190 pages

 

CNEs are provided through our partner, Rush University College of Nursing, an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Illinois Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

 

 

 

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