Team Leadership and MCI simulation

Aim: : Health science students rarely have knowledge of disaster preparedness, and most do not feel prepared to work during a disaster. After Sept 11, more schools added disaster management to curriculums. However, no national mandate exists for this to be added to curriculums. A health science university system developed and implemented several Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) Interprofessional education (IPE) simulations utilizing a team leadership framework to organize this massive event between six schools and many community agencies to produce a very realistic MCI simulation.

Framework:: This poster will present our seven years of experiences of preparing and implementing a MCI realistic simulation to Interprofessional health science students by utilizing a PDSA framework to show how Hill's Model of Team Leadership was used to plan the event. Our observations will be described utilizing our pretest and posttest data.

Setting:: A health science university with 6 schools, EMS and social worker students all participated in a day long IPE MCI simulation. Faculty, staff, clinical practitioners, disaster experts came together to plan this large event. The students were given online didactic content followed by attendance at the simulation at the fire training academy.

Stakeholder Team:: Stakeholder Team:
MD- Faculty, emergency MD, EMS dept ,expert in disaster mgmt.
MD- Faculty, director IPE
FNP/ENP/Faculty: obtained grant funding
FNP/ENP/Faculty: coordinator of MCI simulation
Capt of Fire Academy: helped plan scenario
Admin Assistant of Fire Academy- helped plan scenario
other disaster experts- Medical examiner office, SWAT team to add active shooter to MCI

Methods: : Utilized Hill's Team Leadership Model to plan event. Grant funding was secured. Met monthly then every week before the event. A flyer was sent to stakeholders to advertise. Invitations sent using Qualtrics, followed by a pretest given to students, and a link to Canvas Course to learn online content was given. Students then attended the MCI simulation. After the event, a debriefing and posttest was given

Outcomes:: The MCI simulation in 2022 was the 7th MCI event. Over the years, we have grown.
Plan: This event started out as a small event with just ENP students.
Do: Over the 7 years, we realized more students needed this training.
Study: The first 5 MCIs gathered no formal research. We expanded the leadership team to capture more disaster experts to make more realistic.
Act: Our faculty found disaster knowledge instruments to start formally studying knowledge acquisition. We concluded from our statistics this project is very much wanted and needed by health science center students. We also found that online didactic content followed by live simulation aids in the achievement of this new knowledge and will be displayed in our poster.

Implications:: Health science professionals know little about the Disaster System. Our finding reinforces that most of our participants, who are prelicensure students, have almost no knowledge of disaster management. Our findings will assist educators to understand knowledge gaps so revisions can be made to enhance learning at an actual MCI training event. This can also be directly translated to hospital leadership to encourage them to also set up more disaster simulations.