Use tabletop exercises effectively
Executive Briefings Digest, January 6, 2003
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Organizing a tabletop exercise may be the best way to fulfill your JCAHO requirement for participation in a community emergency drill and to comply with standard EC.2.9.1. These exercises take place around a table with the principal players acting out a specific scenario. You don't need to use actual or simulated patients, and you can vary the timeline to cover a one-to-three day event in one morning or afternoon session.
Here is how to organize a tabletop exercise:
- Pick a scenario based on your hazards vulnerability analysis.
- Determine which part of your emergency plan to test.
- Identify all of the participants and invite representatives from any outside agencies directly involved.
- Brief participants on the rules of the exercise.
- Write out the scenario. Introduce more issue slips as needed to move the exercise along. Include surprise elements.
- Don't presume outcomes.
- Identify areas for improvement.
Source: Briefings on JCAHO,
http://www.hcmarketplace.com/Prod.cfm?id=16&S=EEBD
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