Healthstream Emergency Preparedness
1. What is the role of the Joint Information System?: Ensure that the public isinformed of
events
2. What is the role of the incident command system?: Develop 12-hour incidentaction plans
3. The best example of a "technological disaster" is:: I-35W Mississippi Riverbridge collapse
in 2007
4. A team made up of hospitalstaff and administration coordinates a hospital'sdisaster response.
This team is the:: Incident command team
5. Who isthe person responsible for meeting with the press and public?: Publicinformation
officer
6. Under Joint Commission standards, a healthcare facility's emergency op- erations plan
(EOP) should address four phases of emergency management.Which two phases occur
BEFORE the emergency?: Mitigation and prepared- ness
7. If used in a terrorist attack, anthrax is a type of:: Biological weapon
8. NIMS is:: The U.S. government plan for making sure all emergency responderscan work
together
9. Mustard gas is a type of:: Chemical weapon
10. NIMS includes all of the following EXCEPT:: Evacuation and rescue
11. Every healthcare facility should have an EOP.This plan should document:-
: Facility disaster response systems
12. An example of a "natural disaster" is:: Hurricane Katrina
13. The Joint Commission requires a hospital's emergency operations plan (EOP) to focus on
six key elements. One of these elementsissafety and secu-rity. As part of the plan for safety and
security, the EOP should describe:: Howhazardous materials and wastes will be managed in a
disaster
14. Consider an example of an emergency operations plan (EOP). One part ofthis EOP
describes a process for finding out how many staff members, emptybeds, operating rooms,
medical supplies, and medical devices are available to help respond to a disaster. This process
addresses, in part, The Joint Commission's requirement for six key elements of an EOP. The
key element most directly addressed is:: Resources and assets
15. One feature of a disaster is:: Disasters are too big for a single agency tomanage.
16. Which of the following best describes the relationship between individual healthcare
facilities and NIMS?: Facilities need to be able to work within the NIMS disaster response
structure.
17. Consider an example of an EOP. One part of this EOP describes a process in which all
employeesreport forinstruction when a disaster code is activated.
Certain staff members are sent to a personnel pool. These workers wait to find out what they
need to do. This process addresses, in part, The Joint Commission's requirement for six key
elements of an EOP.The key elementmost directly addressed is:: Resources and assets
18. An employee who voluntarily leaves his/her place of employment to re- spond to a
disasteris entitled to resume his/herjob afterthe disasterresponseand recovery is over.: Maybe