Healthcare Emergency Codes - Awareness Course

Description

Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.  This course will give you in depth knowledge in implementing hospital emergency codes.

Who Should Attend?

• Biomedical engineers, professionals and students
• Any one working in healthcare facilities
• Doctors and nurses
• Quality managers and technical managers in healthcare facilities
• Quality & regulatory professionals
• Anyone involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution, trading, sales or marketing of hospital emergency response system

Key Benefits

• Learn the commonly used emergency codes such as code red, code blue, code yellow, code brown, code black, code purple, code orange and code grey and its purpose
• Understand the techniques to design emergency evacuation routes
• Learn about the common communication requirements
• Understand the regulatory requirements while handling hospital emergencies
• Learn to develop effective Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for implementing hospital emergency codes
• Learn to assign roles and responsibilities during emergency codes activation
• Learn the documentation and record keeping practices
• Develop employee training plan
• Learn the inspection and verification techniques
• Learn to identify and mitigate risks associated with hospital emergencies
• Learn to develop a system to report errors during code activation, conduct root cause analysis and take corrective actions to prevent it from happening again
• Learn techniques to improve response mechanism
• Understand the infrastructure requirements relevant to handling of hospital emergencies

Learning & Evaluation Method

This is  a live and interactive course.  Once you purchase the course, our team will contact you to plan the training. No matter where you are located, we schedule the classes based on your convenience and time zone. You can plan to attend the training in sessions of 4 or 8 hr duration, based on how much time you can spend in a day.

Buy for group Are you planning to buy this course for a group? We have the best prices for you! Select ‘Buy for Group’ option and add to the cart. You will get a discount of 60 – 75% for a group of up to 10 participants. To make a group purchase, create your group name and add individual emails of up to 10 participants. Each participant will get the access to the course materials, exam and the certificate. We will arrange one live-online session for the entire group.