Typical positions within healthcare organizations that also perform emergency preparedness activities include nursing managers, educators, administrators, security managers, environmental health and safety administrators, facilities or physical plant directors, or emergency medical services coordinators (p. 16).How many of the people, who deal with healthcare emergency management, have roles similar to the above listed? Or do you have different primary/ancillary responsibilities? How many of you out there have healthcare EM as your sole role?
Should this responsibility be given to an individual whose sole responsibility is to manage or coordinate the following:
- communications
- surge capacity
- volunteer management
- security issues
- hazmat/CBRNE preparedness
- collaboration and integration with public health
- education and training
- equipment and supplies
- worker safety
- drills and exercises
- emergency department disaster operations
- trauma centers (Reilly and Markenson, 2011, p. 6)
Thank you for your responses.
Reilly, M. & Markenson, D. (Eds.) (2011). Health Care Emergency Management: Principles and practice. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning
