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    • The Disaster Response Collaborative (DRC) aimed to improve pediatric disaster response capability and capacity among children’s hospitals. This enduring recording series features previously held monthly learning sessions with leaders, subject matter experts, and peers. These recordings are now available to a broader audience and provide learners the opportunity to explore the collaborative structure and expectations, hear expert discussions on the four pediatric focus areas/topics, and review opportunities related to tabletop exercises and drills.

      Important Information About Credit & Certificates

      This activity includes 12 on-demand videos.

      • Continuing Education (CE) credit is available for eligible clinicians.
      • Participation certificates are also available for learners who are not seeking CE credit.

      Important: Watching a video alone does not trigger CE credit or certificates.

      For each video, you must:

      1. Complete the attestation to receive the attendance code.
      2. Enter the attendance code at the link provided.
      3. After the new page opens, click the red Take Course button.
      4. Complete the evaluation.
      5. Claim your certificate.

      Each video has its own attendance code. Your attendance code and next-step instructions will appear after completing the attestation.

      If you have questions about credit or certificates, please email ce@pedspandemicnetwork.org.

      What You Will Learn

      By engaging with this collection of recorded sessions, you will explore:

      • Strategies to strengthen pediatric disaster preparedness, response planning, and organizational readiness within children’s hospitals.
      • Best practices for evacuation, reunification, surge planning, and triage/infection control/decontamination during emergencies and disasters.
      • Approaches to quality improvement, disaster plan review, interprofessional collaboration, and evidence-based pediatric disaster management.

      Continuing Education Information

      In support of improving patient care, Children's National Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Children’s National Hospital Accreditation Provider #4008362.

      ACCME: Children’s National Hospital designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM for physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

      ANCC: Children’s National Hospital designates this activity for a maximum of 12 enduring ANCC contact hours.

      Social Work: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Children’s National Hospital is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 12 general continuing education credits.

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      Pediatric Pandemic Network

      pedspandemicnetwork.org

      The Pediatric Pandemic Network is supported in part by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of cooperative agreements U1IMC43532 and U1IMC45814 with 0 percent financed with nongovernmental sources. The content presented here is that of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, visit HRSA.gov.

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    Session 1: Overview of the Disaster Response Collaborative

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      Learning Objectives
      • Describe the need for improving pediatric disaster planning and response in U.S. children’s hospitals.
      • Clarify Pediatric Pandemic Network and Disaster Response Collaborative goals.
      • Identify resources to facilitate improved pediatric disaster response.

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    Session 2: Using Drills and Exercises to Achieve Disaster Response Improvements

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      Learning Objectives
      • Discuss how learning about the response to the shooting at the Kansas City Chief’s Super Bowl Parade Victory Rally can improve your facility’s readiness to prepare to respond to a similar event.
      • Identify how to use key exercise concepts, including types of exercises and guidance from the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation program (HSEEP).
      • State how to satisfy accreditation requirements through participation in drills and exercises.

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    Session 3: Focus Area Option: Triage, Infection Control, and Decontamination

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      Learning Objectives
      • List the benefits of selecting the triage, infection control, and decontamination focus area for an improvement project.
      • Explain why it is important to have protocols for pediatric triage, infection control, and decontamination in your hospital’s disaster plan.
      • Describe how to determine whether decontamination, isolation, and/or infection control procedures are needed or not for a particular patient.

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    Session 4: Focus Area Option: Pediatric Surge Capacity

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      Learning Objectives
      • List the benefits of preparing in advance for surge events.
      • Explain why it is important to have protocols for surge capacity in your hospital’s disaster plan.
      • Describe considerations of various systems when planning for hospital surge.

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    Session 5: Focus Area Option: Pediatric Patient Tracking and Family Reunification

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      Learning Objectives
      • Explain why it is important to have protocols for pediatric patient tracking and family reunification in your hospital’s disaster plan.
      • Discuss questions/strategies for taking an intake of each child and asking questions of parents/guardians to ensure unaccompanied children are reunited with their family accurately and effectively.
      • Describe options for set-up and staffing various areas within a family reunification or support center (e.g., family intake center, pediatric safe area, family reunification site, confidential areas for family updates and notifications).

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    Session 6: Focus Area Option: Pediatric Evacuation

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      Learning Objectives
      • Explain why it is important to have pediatric evacuation protocols in your hospital’s disaster plan.
      • Understand the need to include various approaches to evacuation in disaster planning.
      • Clarify how to use drills/exercises or response to real-life events to prepare for a no-notice evacuation."

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    Session 7: Moving Into Action

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      Learning Objectives
      • Identify operational tips specific to evacuation, reunification, surge, and triage/infection control/decontamination that can be used throughout the disaster plan.
      • Describe how your hospital will benefit from completion of a national self-assessment specific to pediatric disaster preparedness.
      • Determine the impact identified improvements will have on your hospital’s disaster plan and what steps need to be completed to ensure anticipated outcomes.

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    Session 8: From Plans to Practice: Activities to Improve Disaster Response

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      Learning Objectives
      • Learn about activities that can lead to improved disaster response capability and capacity.
      • Identify how lessons learned from tabletop exercises focused on evacuation, reunification, surge, or triage/infection control/decontamination can improve preparedness.
      • Outline steps to plan drills, including how to test certain protocols for efficiency and accuracy.

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    Session 9: Building the Bridge: Continuity in Pediatric Response

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      Learning Objectives
      • Discuss ways to maintain ongoing business priorities in a disaster.
      • Describe staff training and orientation options in disaster planning.
      • Identify exercise/drill strategies shared by other facilities to guide your disaster planning and response efforts.

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    Session 10: From Data to Decision Making: Engaging Hospital Leadership in Pediatric Disaster Preparedness

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      Learning Objectives
      • Understand the importance of relationship building in disaster management.
      • Describe strategies for engaging and maintaining C-suite/leadership awareness and support of pediatric preparedness and response efforts.
      • Identify examples of how to plan and conduct drills in support of specific outcomes.

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    Session 11: Team Report Outs: Lessons Learned from the DRC

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      Learning Objectives
      • Outline at least three key strategies for disaster preparedness planning.
      • Identify common challenges often experienced in disaster preparedness planning
      • Describe the importance of a sustainability plan to continue disaster response work

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