Emergency Management is not just a paper exercise. New regulations require an all-hazards approach, but hospitals still do not turn off their power systems for maintenance. Why the dichotomy? Why does our unwillingness to deal with this necessity put our patients at increased risk while we plan for a result we are unwittingly helping to bring about? Attend this session and learn strategies, tactics, and procedures for conducting safe, effective power shutdowns. Attendees will be able to:
- Use the increasing emphasis on emergency management to demonstrate the credible need for, plan, communicate, train clinicians, and conduct safe, effective building-wide or multiple building
- Take away proven techniques, tactics, strategies, forms and procedures to facilitate power shutdowns
- Plan and conduct their own power shutdowns.