Disaster Management in 2021 & Beyond: Lessons Learned from Israeli, American & Canadian Experience - Day 2

Sunday, June 13, 2021, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

This two-day virtual conference will address current & anticipated future issues in Disaster Management, learning from American, Israeli, and Canadian experience.

Day 1 - June 6, 2021

Day 2 - June 13, 2021

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (3.50 hours), CME Non-Physician (Attendance) (3.50 hours), Trauma CME (3.50 hours), IPCE (3.50 hours), Nursing CE (ANCC) (3.50 hours), Social Work CE (ASWB) (3.50 hours)

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1. Describe how safe and effective EMS responses were created in the U.S., Canada, and Israel.
2. Describe the standards that were developed in regard to restricting who could be transported, how they could be transferred, providing home care, and related issues, in relation to legal and ethical principles.
3. Assess the ways in which standards related to patient transport during COVID-19 were or were not effective.
4. Explain how EMS participated in community testing and vaccine administration, in which Israel played a pioneering role.
5. Speculate about how what we have learned from this experience should be applied to future events, including both disasters and diseases.
6. Describe basic considerations related to triage and management of initial mental health concerns during and immediately following a disaster.
7. Describe how health care providers can be trained in such a way as to prevent or reduce their own mental health issues that might otherwise occur during a disaster situation.
8. Identify strategies for reducing stress and treating mental health symptoms of caregivers during and immediately following a disaster scenario.
9. Discuss strategies for reducing the likelihood of post-disaster PTSD, as well as basic approaches to treatment.
10. List the implications of a highly contagious, airborne infection with high mortality.
11. Develop multifaceted, interdisciplinary strategies to achieve best outcomes.
12. Develop a strategy for containment and mitigation.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Beaumont Health and American Healthcare Professionals & Friends for Medicine in Israel.  Beaumont Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 3.5 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

Medicine CME: Beaumont Health designates this live activity or enduring material for a maximum of 3.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing CE: Beaumont Health designates this activity for a maximum of 3.5 ANCC contact hours.  Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Social Work CE:  As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Beaumont Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Beaumont Health maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 3.5 continuing education credits.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships: In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Beaumont Health implemented mechanisms to identify and mitigate relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for all individuals in a position to control content of this activity.

Sunday, June 13, 2021