Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation
Program (HSEEP) for Hospitals Training
Lesson 1: Overview
of HSEEP
Lesson 2: Gathering Information
Lesson 3: Writing
SMART Objectives and Evaluation Guides
Lesson 4: Completing the Exercise Design Checklist
Lesson 5: Scenario
Development
Lesson 6: Master Sequence of
Events List
Lesson 7: After
Action Report and Improvement Plan
Lesson 1:
Overview of HSEEP
(26 minutes 31 seconds)
This lesson addresses the origin of the Department
of Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) and its
relevance to hospital exercise design process for compliance with Joint
Commission and CMS standards. The documents below are discussed in this
lesson.
1- a) CMS
checklist 9/2007 (Word, 104 KB)
1- b) Preparedness
Partners Training and Exercise Grid (Word,
48 KB)
Lesson 2:
Gathering Information
(16 minutes 44 seconds)
This lesson addresses the historical documents and
information needed to complete planning documents.
These include the facility’s Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA),
previously identified areas for improvement, and After Action reports of
past exercises and actual events. The documents below are discussed in
this lesson.
2-a) Gathering
Exercise Planning Documents (Word, 27 KB)
2-b) Multi
Year Exercise Grid (Word, 118 KB)
2-c) Example
After Action Report with Improvement Plan (Word, 51 KB)
Lesson 3:
Writing SMART Objectives and Evaluation Guides
(16 minutes
17 seconds)
This lesson introduces the SMART method of writing
objectives. Exercise
objectives should be simple, measurable, achievable, realistic,
and task- oriented. Evaluation
guides provide a framework for evaluators to record observations of the
tasks and activities performed during the exercise. The documents below are discussed in
this lesson.
3-a) Sample
Objectives List Developed by Region 7 (Word, 50 KB)
3-b) Severe
Weather Planning Objectives (Word, 36
KB)
3-c) Severe
Weather Response and Recovery Capabilities (Word, 41 KB)
3-d) Completed
Exercise Evaluation Guide (Word, 93
KB)
3-e) Blank
Exercise Evaluation Guide (Word, 54 KB)
Lesson 4:
Completing the Exercise Design Checklist
(11 minutes
38 seconds)
This lesson walks the student through the
completion of a checklist developed to
assist hospitals to create exercises that meet
regulatory requirements. These
checklists apply information gathered in
Lesson 2 and objective writing skills from Lesson 3. The document below are discussed in
this lesson.
4-a) Exercise
Design Checklist (Word, 66 KB)
Lesson 5:
Scenario Development
(5 minutes
21 seconds)
This lesson addresses resources that can be used to
assist in writing scenarios. There
are 23 scenarios with planning guides and job action sheets that can be
found at the web site, www.emsa.ca.gov
.
The document below are discussed in
this lesson.
5-a) Severe
Weather Scenario (from HICS website) (Word, 26 KB)
Lesson 6:
Master Sequence of Events List
(8 minutes
43 seconds)
This lesson addresses how
to create a Master Sequence of Events List that will help
guide exercise controllers to ensure all scenario objectives are
demonstrated during the course of an exercise. The documents below are discussed in
this lesson.
6-a) Severe
Weather Master Sequence (Scenario) of Events List (Word, 49 KB)
6-b) Blank
Master Sequence (Scenario) of Events List (Word, 47 KB)
Lesson 7:
After Action Report and Improvement Plan
(7 minutes
41 seconds)
This lesson walks the student through creation of
an After Action Report using a template modified for a hospital
environment and an Improvement Plan (Appendix A) that is important to
the Joint Commission because it demonstrates a hospital is monitoring
the progress of issues identified for improvement. The documents below are discussed in
this lesson.
7-a) Example
After Action Report with Improvement Plan (Word, 51 KB)
7-b) Simplified
After Action Report for Exercises with Appendix A (Word, 48 KB)
7-c) Simplified
After Action Report for Actual Events (Word, 30 KB)
7-d) Appendix
A Improvement Plan (Word, 57 KB)
For more information, contact
Marge McFarlane, WHEPP
HSEEP Coordinator.
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Last Revised:
February 26, 2013
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