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Help your facility prepare to handle the real thing when it happens<br/>Emergency Preparedness Solutions: Customizable Paper Patients is a collection of patient profiles that will help you drill for any type of disaster event and test your emergency operations plan (EOP), satisfying a major Joint Commission compliance requirement.<br/>This collection of more than 80 Paper Patients is conveniently delivered via download. It is designed to teach staff how to make quick, informed decisions about patient care based on visual and clinical presentation. And best of all, you don't have to waste valuable hours creating patient profiles for every drill you run - just adapt ours to fit your needs! Paper patients allow you to:<br/>Satisfy Joint Commission requirements for testing your EOP<br/>Conduct realistic disaster drills at your facility, even if you do not have enough volunteers to simulate the real thing<br/>Prepare for all types of disasters including mass casualty, radiological, chemical and biological incidents<br/>Train staff to triage a range of clinical presentations during a disaster<br/>The set comes in three types of fully electronic, customizable patients:<br/><br/>Triage Paper Patients provide disaster exercise participants with visual cues, such as a victim's relative age, level of consciousness, and ability to sit or stand. Hospitals can mass produce these patients to stress the facilities surge capabilities and triage process for an influx of patients during a drill.<br/>Disaster-Specific Paper Patients show individuals involved in specific scenarios, such as chemical spills, or mass-casualty incidents. These patients come with prepopulated clinical presentations that you can modify to fit the needs of your exercises.<br/>Everyday Paper Patients simulate typical emergency room patients that will continue to present to your facility, even during a disaster. Similar to the Disaster Paper Patients, these patients come with prepopulated clinical presentations