Executive leadership in the 21st century requires attention to a wide variety of potential emergency situations. These may be internal such as active shooters, biocontrol, technology takeover, catastrophic infrastructure failure, or external, such as terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and a host of accidents such as airplanes crashes, train derailments involving hazardous materials. You, as leader, will analyze which of these potential situations are likely given your demographic area.Thankfully, there is a wide variety of resources to assist in the development of these plans, and most organizations have existing plans.For this assignment, utilize as many of these resources as you wish:
- Emergency Management
- FEMA Planning Considerations: Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks (PDF)
- AONE Guiding Principles: Role of the Nurse Leader in Crisis Management (PDF)
- The Joint Commission Online
- Homeland Security: Active Shooter Emergency Action Plan Guide and Template
- Current organizational plan at place of employment
Create a Disaster Preparedness plan.
Include the following aspects in the Assignment:
- Choose one aspect of interest to you from the wide variety of complex coordinated emergency response plan needs (Active Shooter, Terrorist Response, Natural Disaster Response, etc.)
- Develop a 10 pg slide presentation
- Your plan may modify an existing plan
- This is a high-level overview of the major aspects of the emergency response plan needs
- More granular details can be added as speakers notes if you wish
- Include:
- Risk Analysis,
- Resource Analysis,
- Standards,
- Literature Review,
- Goals,
- Timeline,
- Evaluation
