Medical Countermeasures: Point of Dispensing (POD), Planning, and Response

Course Description

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

Internet-Basic Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Concepts for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) Events (AWR-111-W)

• Terrorism Awareness for Emergency First Responders (AWR160-W)
• Medical Management of CBRNE Events (PER211)
• Familiarity with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS).  For more information about NIMS and ICS, see the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) independent study courses IS-100, IS-200, and IS-700 (or their equivalents).
• Medical Countermeasures Awareness for Public Health Emergencies (AWR314) 

Upon successful completion, you will be able to:

• Discuss the roles and responsibilities for local, state, and federal levels across a broad range of complex preparedness challenges related to medical countermeasures.
• Identify the different POD models and standards for selecting POD locations.
• Demonstrate the essential functions of POD setup and operations.
• Apply a command structure for the initial mobilization, execution, and demobilization of a jurisdictional POD response, including individual POD operations.
• Identify the planning and training needs of POD staff to operate a POD site.
• Assess the concerns of the community jurisdictional medical countermeasures plan.

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Suggested Audience

Disciplines include, but are not limited to:

• Law Enforcement (LE)
• Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
• Hospital personnel, physicians, and nurses
• Mental Health
• Public Health Services
• Public Works (PW)
• Emergency Management Organizations  
• Tribal, county, state, and federal medical
• Private Industry
• School Personnel
• Volunteer Organizations
• 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

DHS/FEMA information

As part of a Department of Homeland Security/ Federal Emergency Management Agency (DHS/FEMA) funded Homeland Security National Training Program Cooperative Agreement this course is provided at no cost to your jurisdiction. The 2-day (16 hour) course is aimed at providing pertinent information to all first responders and receivers that could be involved in the response to a CBRNE event.

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

Requesting Course Delivery Dates

Course delivery dates are at the discretion of the requesting agents or jurisdiction and must be consecutive.

• An interested jurisdiction/agency contacts their respective State Administrative Agency Training Point of Contact (SAA TPOC) to request a National Training and Education Division (NTED) instructor-led course.
• It is then at the SAA TPOC’s discretion to approve or not approve the training request.
• If the SAA TPOC agrees to the training request he/she contacts the training partner directly with information about the specific course to schedule, the number of participants interested in attending the course, and a listing of preferred dates.

Government Programs

• GSA contract number: GS-07F-0357V. GSA customers, to register please contact [email protected] or call (866) 878-8900.
• For DHS/FEMA Funded Courses, please contact [email protected] or call (866) 878-8900
• This project was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number (EMW-2023-CA-05041) administered by DHS/FEMA. Points of view or opinions expressed in this document are those of the author and do not represent the official position or policies of DHS/FEMA.
  FEMA’s National Training and Education Division (NTED) offers a full catalog of courses at no cost to help build critical skills that responders need to function effectively in mass consequence events. Course subjects range from CBRNE / Weapons of Mass Destruction terrorism, cybersecurity, natural disasters, and other functions of emergency preparedness, response, and recovery. NTED courses include multiple delivery methods: instructor-led (direct deliveries), train-the-trainers (indirect deliveries), customized (conferences and seminars), and web-based. Instructor-led courses are offered in residence (i.e., at a training facility), virtually, or through mobile programs, in which courses are brought to state and local jurisdictions that request the training.
  NTED certified courses can be found at: www.firstrespondertraining.gov