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Simulated Patient (SimPat) Influx Exercises (1 of 2)
An SES SimPat exercise is an efficient way to exercise and assess organizational processes and capabilities associated with patient processing and flow within a healthcare provider organization. To avoid the cost and complexity associated with using volunteers or actors to simulate real patients, a SimPat exercise utilizes paper cutouts which are treated by staff as real patients. SES also provides the design and delivery of a comprehensive scenario of patient presentations, complications, and dispositions based on the goals and objectives of the organization. When designed and executed by SES, SimPat exercises satisfy the Joint Commission compliance requirements regarding functional exercise.
An SES SimPat exercise can be conducted as either a free standing exercise or as an activity linked to one or more Desktop exercises. Participants often time find tremendous benefit to working through a Desktop exercise to set the community-wide stage for an event, then following through with a SimPat functional exercise to further evaluate their system's internal response. A further benefit is the ability to meet both the community-based and functional exercise elements to satisfy annual requirements of Joint Commission standards.
Planning and holding an SES SimPat exercise could not be easier as SES provides all necessary services beginning with an initial consultation to identify and refine goals and objectives of the exercise. The following types of scenarios are currently available:
Here's how it works - on the day of the exercise hospital staff are informed that they must treat the paper patients as though they were real in all aspects. Time sequenced patient information is provided to participants by an onsite controller provided by SES. This information is attached to a paper cutout (adult and pediatric) and presented at the registration or triage area. The simulated patient is then processed through the system with registration, staff evaluation, orders being written, lab and x-ray simulating involvement, pharmacy "filling" order, and the patient being dispositioned to the operating room, ICU, general bed or discharge. If discharged, discharge instructions are written for the patient. If admitted, the normal admitting procedure for the disaster is followed and the patient is moved to their bed. Pertinent laboratory and x-ray data is provided at periodic intervals. In addition, periodic patient updates are provided to address issues of patient deterioration, surge, need for transfer, safety and security issues as well as patient demise. Finally, the Incident Command Staff are asked to develop an incident action plan and transfer command to another group.
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An SES SimPat exercise is an efficient way to exercise and assess organizational processes and capabilities associated with patient processing and flow within a healthcare provider organization. To avoid the cost and complexity associated with using volunteers or actors to simulate real patients, a SimPat exercise utilizes paper cutouts which are treated by staff as real patients. SES also provides the design and delivery of a comprehensive scenario of patient presentations, complications, and dispositions based on the goals and objectives of the organization. When designed and executed by SES, SimPat exercises satisfy the Joint Commission compliance requirements regarding functional exercise.
An SES SimPat exercise can be conducted as either a free standing exercise or as an activity linked to one or more Desktop exercises. Participants often time find tremendous benefit to working through a Desktop exercise to set the community-wide stage for an event, then following through with a SimPat functional exercise to further evaluate their system's internal response. A further benefit is the ability to meet both the community-based and functional exercise elements to satisfy annual requirements of Joint Commission standards.
Planning and holding an SES SimPat exercise could not be easier as SES provides all necessary services beginning with an initial consultation to identify and refine goals and objectives of the exercise. The following types of scenarios are currently available:
- Mass Casualty Incident - Explosion
- Mass Casualty Incident - Dirty Bomb
- Mass Casualty Incident - Chemical
- Mass Casualty Incident - Infectious
- Anthrax
- Pneumonic Plague
- Pandemic Influenza
Here's how it works - on the day of the exercise hospital staff are informed that they must treat the paper patients as though they were real in all aspects. Time sequenced patient information is provided to participants by an onsite controller provided by SES. This information is attached to a paper cutout (adult and pediatric) and presented at the registration or triage area. The simulated patient is then processed through the system with registration, staff evaluation, orders being written, lab and x-ray simulating involvement, pharmacy "filling" order, and the patient being dispositioned to the operating room, ICU, general bed or discharge. If discharged, discharge instructions are written for the patient. If admitted, the normal admitting procedure for the disaster is followed and the patient is moved to their bed. Pertinent laboratory and x-ray data is provided at periodic intervals. In addition, periodic patient updates are provided to address issues of patient deterioration, surge, need for transfer, safety and security issues as well as patient demise. Finally, the Incident Command Staff are asked to develop an incident action plan and transfer command to another group.
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