Disaster Prepareness and Emergency Response for the Long Term Care Facility

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Tagert Audience: Long Term Care Administrators and other interested health care professionals.

Objectives:
List types of disasters.
Discuss the characteristics of a wide spread natural or manmade disaster.
Identify sign/symptoms of influenza or other possible contaminates.
Name types of events that would require evacuation vs. sheltering-in-place.
List resources in the community that would be needed to accomplish evacuation.
Discuss and assemble supplies necessary for 3 days of shelter-in-place.

Credit
0.2 CEU?s for social work (untrained)
Application for Long Term Care Administrator credit submitted for approval.
2 contact hours for licensed nurses

Fee
No fee. This program is sponsored by a HRSA grant
To register call 864.349.1177(automated registration line) or www.upstateahec.org