Emergency Preparedness: Training Outcome in Hospital Staff

Introduction: A widely acknowledged aspect of emergency preparedness is hospital-wide staff education. Maintaining interest in hospital among challenging. education process involving a robust lecture and hands on donning doffing sessions followed by periodic disaster drills has been recently undertaken as quality improvement process. Method: prospective pre- post-test study 256 were given six-hour training course comprehensive Hospital Incident Command Systems (HICS), Hazmat (Hazardous Materials), CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiation, Nuclear, Explosive) events. The same pre to all participants that contained questions assess knowledge. Results: registrars within seven months (two classes per month) completed with post-tests. average class size was 18.3 (range= 14 26 registrars). 3 (1.1 % 95% confidence interval) achieved the pass mark 70% pre-test survey 230 (89.8 %) (χ2-test P < 0.001) an absolute increase rate 84%. Conclusion: This finding justifies Emergency Preparedness Training at our institution, showing marked knowledge HICS management. should encourage continuous widespread use Preparedness.