Emergency Management for Healthcare

Introduction

This series of books is intended to teach the skills which have been traditionally associated with the practice of Emergency Management (EM). This includes all of the skills involved in the assessment of risk, selection of Command and Control models, the writing of an Emergency Plan, the testing of that document by means of various types of exercises, and the development of employee education programs which are intended to strengthen familiarity with the plan. However, no Emergency Plan is a “blueprint” to guide a community or organization through its successful response to a disaster. Every disaster is different in multiple ways and is extremely complex. If we could simply preplan and preprogram every type of emergency response ...