Hospital Emergency Response Team Train-the-Trainer, Anniston, AL 2022

The Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT) course addresses healthcare response at the operations level for the facility and its personnel. This three-day course prepares healthcare responders to utilize the Hospital Incident Command System — integrating into the community emergency response network while operating an Emergency Treatment Area as hospital first responders during a mass casualty incident involving patient contamination. The healthcare responders will determine and use appropriate personal protective equipment and conduct triage followed by decontamination of ambulatory and non-ambulatory patients as members of a Hospital Emergency Response Team.

Below are some, but not all, of the critical skill sets learned during this training program:

• Analyze the need, composition, and use of a Hospital Emergency Treatment Team during an emergency, mass casualty incident, or disaster situation.
• Summarize the organization and operation of the Hospital Incident Command System as it integrates with the Incident Command System during response to mass casualty incident.
• Differentiate the medical responses to a variety of illnesses and injuries that may result from a mass casualty incident.
• Select and use the appropriate level of personal protective equipment as hospital first receivers in response to a disaster involving patient contamination.
• Structure the healthcare facility Emergency Treatment Area to support medical operations in response a mass casualty incident.
• Establish a Hospital Emergency Response Team that meets all safety requirements, provides security to the hospital, and efficiently manages patients for processing into the hospital facility for follow-up treatment.
• Compare decontamination methods and procedures.
• Perform Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment© (START) and JumpSTART procedures within the Emergency Treatment Area during a hospital response to a mass casualty incident involving contamination.
• Conduct operations in an Emergency Treatment Area while wearing appropriate personal protective equipment in response to a mass casualty incident involving contamination.
• Conduct an effective medical response to a mass casualty incident using the Hospital Emergency Response Team approach.

Prerequisites and Requirements

To be eligible for the course, the student must successfully complete the following courses:

• AWR-160, WMD/Terrorism Awareness for Emergency Responders;
• IS-100.c, Introduction to Incident Command System for Healthcare/Hospitals, IS-100;
• IS-200.c, ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents; and
• IS-700.b, National Incident Management System, An Introduction.