The Incident Action Plan contains objectives reflecting the
overall incident strategy and specific tactical actions and
supporting information for the next operational period. The
hospital’s IAP, at a minimum, is generally made up of the
following forms:
The IAP may also have a number of other forms as attachments such
as Traffic Plans, etc. Element 12 of NIMS Compliance for
Healthcare states that hospitals utilize IAPs for all incidents
and exercises along with the plans to communicate through the ICS
chain-of-command. The Joint Commission’s EM 01.01.01 requires an
ICS that is integrated into, and is consistent with, its
community’s command structure.
HICSi is an incident management system specifically designed to
aid hospitals and healthcare entities in developing and refining
their emergency management planning, response, and recovery
capabilities. HICS is consistent with Incident Command
System and the National Incident Management System (NIMS)
principles.
The HICSi Role Table Tents can be used during actual events or
for exercises. They identify the name of each person filling the
top nine roles.
The tent cards act as a reminder of the Incident Action
Planning Process and assist with completion of the appropriate
forms.
When it comes to completing The Joint Commission table top
survey, TJC states that they want name plates/table tents with
the role and name of person in the table top. This will also
provide those personnel with a reminder on the role of that
position and the Incident Action Planning Process.
Psychological Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment: Provides methods
to link mental health to disaster system of care, mental health
triage tag, IT, and ICS/HICSi compliant job action sheets.
This 2.5 hour course was developed to provide instruction specific to hospital incident action plan development.
The topics of this course are also covered within the “HICS Basics” course, however this session focuses primarily on the topic of incident action planning.
This course was developed as an introduction to the Hospital
Incident Command System.
Course Description
This 4.5 hour course provides an overview of the Hospital
Incident Command System (HICSi) and the operation of the Hospital
Command Center (HCC) during emergencies. The course includes
hands-on training and use of HICS forms and tools.