CDP creates dedicated HERO course training area
The CDP recently established a dedicated training area for students attending its HERO Course.
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) recently established a dedicated training area for students attending its Healthcare Emergency Response Operations for CBRNE Incidents (HERO) Course.
The former labor and delivery, operating and recovery rooms in the center’s Noble Training Facility are now home to skills training for those students, who are taught how to care for victims of mass casualty events involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive (CBRNE) materials.
The students will train in the area twice during the course – once as they assess simulated patients injured in four different hazardous materials incidents and again as they practice performing various medical procedures while wearing protective suits.
The dedicated training area was a combined effort by CDP Training and Education Directorate specialists and course simulation technicians and instructors, and it cost nothing to construct. The rooms simply need to be cleaned and some equipment moved for the space to be used.
The HERO course is typically taught to college nursing students in conjunction with the CDP’s Emergency Medical Response Awareness for CBRNE Incidents Course, and it helps them meet some of their school’s nursing program requirements.