Team STEPS®:

1.Teamwork, Leadership & Transformation

•   Disasters: Definitions, concepts & discussion of recent disasters
•   Methods of effective team communication
•   Leadership & teamwork concepts and skills session

2.Impact of Disasters, Incident Command & the Role of Healthcare Institutions 

•  Impact of disasters on individuals, families, institutions & communities
•  Standards of Care in Disaster & Public Health Emergencies
•  Incident command structures for disaster response
•  Disaster Response Plans, Policies and
• Public Safety Services – Integrating Hospitals into the Big Plan
•  Re-tasking Hospital Departments during a disaster
•  Implementing a Disaster Response Program
•  Using TeamSTEPS processes to facilitate change
•  Disaster planning task force creation

3.Creating a Disaster Plan

•  Review of Example Disaster Plans
•  Panel Case Studies (World Trade Center analyzed)
•  Creating a Disaster Plan Task Force
• Developing the Hospital Emergency Management Plan
•  Integrating with Local and community resources and Public Safety Agencies (Public Health, Police, Fire, EMS, Military, Religious Leaders & Institutions, Private Sector support)
• Disaster Plan Creation
• Educating Hospital Departments in the Plan & Staff Safety
• Incident Command, Internal Communication &Coordination
• Risk External Communications and Media Relations
• Disaster Plan Implementation & Disaster Drills

4. Disaster Drill Creation

•   Internal Disasters – (smoke/fire, power failure, hospital infection, HAZMAT, active shooter)
•  External Disasters – (mass gathering, storms, fires, floods)
•  Evacuating the Hospital, Security and Physical Infrastructure Protection
•  Evacuating Multiple Hospitals
•  Design an internal hospital disaster drill
•  Design an external hospital disaster drill
•  Debriefing and Feedback
• Table top exercises
•  Paper Disaster Drills
•  Simulated Patients & Full Scale Drills

5. Field Training Exercises: Conducting Disaster Drills

•  Field Training Exercise – Internal Disaster Drill
•  Field Training Exercise: External & Hospital Involved Disasters
•  Feedback & Recommendations

Class Size, Instructors, Assistants & Certifying body Course Duration: 5 days

Number of Students per session: 20 Number of Instructors per session: 2

Number of Courses: Multiple courses to cover key staff of Emergency Medical Services across Kuwait

Certifying body: Icahn School of Medicine-Mount Sinai Medical Center, Ohio Tactical Officer Association, and certificate of attendance TeamSTEPPS® provided by AHRQ.