CHP 303 MRC: Emergency Mgmt/Disaster Prep
This course will prepare the learner to evaluate community resources including personnel, equipment, communication and financial sources to build and maintain a healthy emergency response system. Attention is given to improving emergency response skills with targeted training through strengthening understanding of public health, reducing vulnerability and building resilience. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to affiliate with the Sacred Heart University Medical Reserve Corps. Course faculty will include subject matter experts from the local MRC, healthcare partners from local hospitals, EMS, fire and police. An interdisciplinary approach to disaster management is used in the course curriculum with various roles and scope of practice defined. Participants will gain mastery of the START triage model and will implement it in theory and practice with tabletop exercises and a live, simulated disaster drill at the culmination of the class.