Topic:
Medical Countermeasures & Points of Dispensing
Format:
Online Course
Time:
1 hour
Level:
Introductory
University:
University of Iowa
PERLC:
Upper Midwest PERLC
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Description:
The goal of this course is to provide an overview of Iowa's Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) plan. The intended audience for this course are persons at both the state and local level who may be involved in the state's operational plan for the receipt, allocation and/or distribution of medical assets during a public health emergency.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the mission of the federal SNS program
- List the goal of the Iowa SNS program
- Identify the 5-tiered response developed for Iowa's SNS program
- Identify the 3 main phases of the Iowa SNS program
- Define the established process for requesting SNS assets
- Identify who has authority to request deployment of SNS assets
- Define the 12-Hour Push Package and application during a public health emergency
- Define Managed Inventory and application during a public health emergency
- Review the State's operational plan for the receipt, allocation and distribution of medical assets
- Identify mass dispensing and mass vaccination goals
- Identify general POD operational processes
- Discuss components of a local POD plan
PHEP Capabilities:
Medical Surge
Medical Countermeasure Dispensing
Medical Materiel Management and Distribution
Community Preparedness