MGT348 Medical Preparedness and Response to Bombing Incidents

Course Description

This course is designed for personnel from any professional background who may become part of a community response to a bombing event. This interactive, instructor-facilitated program employs case studies and research-based information designed to enhance medical preparedness for and response to blast effects. Breakout sessions address considerations and concerns specific both to medical responders and emergency planners. 

Students are encouraged to ask questions and to create a to-do list of items they don’t have the answers to, so they have a list of tasks to address when they return to their jurisdiction.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Completion Requirements

Participants must provide information for all required fields, including their U.S. citizenship/permanent resident information, in addition to meeting all other attendance and course completion requirements. If this information is not provided, the participant will be considered incomplete and will not receive a certificate of completion.

Participants Must Provide

• A photo identification on the first day of class. See the Participant Handbook for approved forms of identification and additional guidelines.

Attendance Requirements

Class attendance is an essential part of the education process and participants in TEEX courses are expected to attend all class sessions and field exercises. This course requires participants to attend a minimum of 80% of the class hours as a component of successful course completion. During the course, your instructor will review any additional attendance requirements, for example a field exercise that cannot be missed

Recommended

Familiarity with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS). For more information about NIMS and ICS, see the FEMA independent study courses IS-100, IS-200, and IS-700 (or their equivalents).

Upon successful completion, you will be able to:

• Explain how to apply the lessons learned from the London Transit System and Boston Marathon bombings to help prevent and/or respond to a possible local bombing incident.
• Identify and explain the threats posed by terrorists’ use of explosives against U.S. domestic targets.
• Identify commonly used explosives, explosive devices, and basic blast physics.
• Recognize and identify indicators of an imminent attack.
• Safely conduct appropriate preventive, preparatory, and response actions during both the pre-detonation and post-detonation periods of a bombing incident.

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Suggested Audience

Disciplines include, but are not limited to:

• Fire Services
• Law Enforcement (federal, state, local, county)
• SWAT team members
• Tactical Medics
• Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
• Hospital personnel
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Emergency management organizations
• Emergency managers and planners
• Emergency planners
• City, county, state, and federal medical
• County Medical
• State Medical
• Federal Medical
• Private Industry
• Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
• Dispatchers
• Medical Reserve Corps

Continuing Education And Professional Credits

Note: Live Online Instructor-Led (webinar) courses are not eligible for TCOLE credit.

• Emergency Nurses Association (ENA)
• American Academy of Family Practitioners (AAFP)
• Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE)
• Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS)
• International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM)

Other Information

This course is taught in partnership with the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC) at New Mexico Tech.

Continuing Education Credits

ENA continuing education credit is approved by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.