NEW PM105 Laboratory Operations During a Disaster: Are You Prepared?
9:30–11:30 am
2.0 CME/CE CREDITS
Clinical laboratories are especially vulnerable to certain threats that arise during a local, community, regional, or national disaster. Increasingly, accrediting organizations, especially the Joint Commission, are promoting effective emergency planning. The laboratory must have representation in the emergency operations plan (EOP) development. This course will familiarize you with the domestic structure and terminology of emergency planning, provide several potential scenarios that challenge laboratory disaster operations, and overview the terms, tools, and steps used in developing an EOP. Faculty will reference the new Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) document GP-36, “Planning for Challenges to Clinical Laboratory Operations During a Disaster.”
You will learn to:
- Assess the state of emergency operations planning in your laboratory, facility, and community
- Name and assess major emergency challenges potentially confronting your laboratory during disaster operations
- Explain the terminology and tools common to emergency operations planning
- Develop and sustain an EOP
- Interact with local emergency operations planners to enhance your facility’s and laboratory’s EOP
Faculty
Gina Potenza, MS
Thomas L. Williams, MD, FCAP
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