Ebola Virus Training: A Needs Assessment and Gap Analysis
| Autor: | Betsy Galluzzo, Joy C Lee Pearson, Nina Jaitly, Deborah Weinstock, Jonathan D Rosen, James Remington, Kevin Yeskey, Joseph Hughes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Inservice Training Health (social science) Health Personnel Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Best practice education Disaster Planning Management Monitoring Policy and Law Risk Assessment Training (civil) Disease Outbreaks 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Health care Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Ebola Vaccines Infection Control Medical education Emergency management business.industry 030503 health policy & services Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Stakeholder Hemorrhagic Fever Ebola Ebolavirus Private sector Needs assessment Emergency Medicine Emergency Service Hospital 0305 other medical science business Safety Research Needs Assessment |
| Zdroj: | Health Security. 15:225-229 |
| ISSN: | 2326-5108 2326-5094 |
| DOI: | 10.1089/hs.2016.0116 |
| Popis: | In response to the 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak, the Worker Training Program embarked on an assessment of existing training for those at risk for exposure to the virus. Searches of the recent peer-reviewed literature were conducted for descriptions of relevant training. Federal guidance issued during 2015 was also reviewed. Four stakeholder meetings were conducted with representatives from health care, academia, private industry, and public health to discuss issues associated with ongoing training. Our results revealed few articles about training that provided sufficient detail to serve as models. Training programs struggled to adjust to frequently updated federal guidance. Stakeholders commented that most healthcare training focused solely on infection control, and there was an absence of employee health-related training for non-healthcare providers. Challenges to ongoing training included funding and organizational complacency. Best practices were noted where management and employees planned training cooperatively and where infection control, employee health, and hospital emergency managers worked together on the development of protective guidance. We conclude that sustainable training for infectious disease outbreaks requires annual funding, full support from organizational management, input from all stakeholders, and integration of infection control, emergency management, and employee health when implementing guidance and training. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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