DRC Session 3: Focus Area Option: Triage, Infection Control, and Decontamination

The Disaster Response Collaborative (DRC) aimed to improve pediatric disaster response capability and capacity among children’s hospitals. This enduring recording series features previously held monthly learning sessions with leaders, subject matter experts, and peers. These recordings are now available to a broader audience and provide learners the opportunity to explore the collaborative structure and expectations, hear expert discussions on the four pediatric focus areas/topics, and review opportunities related to tabletop exercises and drills.

How Completion Works

This session is one of 12 activities in the Disaster Response Collaborative series.

Activities may be completed in any order. Participants may claim credit for each individual activity as it is completed.

Participants who successfully complete all 12 activities will receive a Certificate of Completion for the series. Once all activities are complete, Click Here.

To check your progress or view completed activities, visit My Activities.

Note: Watching the video alone does not trigger completion. To earn credit for this activity, complete the following:

  • Watch the video on PPN Learn
  • Complete the attestation
  • Record the attendance code and course page link.
  • On the course page, click “Take Course” then “Start Course.
  • Enter your attendance code.
  • Complete the evaluation and continue through the remaining screens until the page displays “Course Complete.”

Target Audience

The target audience for the DRC includes children's hospital teams that register for the DRC. Team members may include the following: emergency/disaster management professionals, medical directors, emergency coordinators, paramedics, physicians, nurses, social workers, managers, mental and behavioral health professionals, representatives from hospital operations, security, quality/performance improvement, and public relations. Teams can include external members (e.g., community hospital and/or Healthcare Coalition representatives along with an EMSC State Partner Program Manager) if this approach will add value to project work. 

Learning Objectives

  • List the benefits of selecting the triage, infection control, and decontamination focus area for an improvement project.
  • Explain why it is important to have protocols for pediatric triage, infection control, and decontamination in your hospital’s disaster plan.
  • Describe how to determine whether decontamination, isolation, and/or infection control procedures are needed or not for a particular patient.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    Children's National Hospital designates this Enduring activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 1.00 ANCC
    Children's National Hospital will provide 1.00 Nursing Contact Hours for this Enduring activity.
  • 1.00 Participation
    Successful completion of this continuing education activity.
Course opens: 
05/01/2026
Course expires: 
05/01/2029
Part of: 
Pediatric Disaster Response Playback: Disaster Response Collaborative Playback

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, Children's National Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Children’s National Hospital Accreditation Provider# 4008362. 

Credit Designation Statements

ACCME: Children’s National Hospital designates this live/enduring activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM for physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ANCC: Children’s National Hospital designates this activity for a maximum of 1 Enduring ANCC contact hour(s).

Disclosure of Conflict of Interest

The planning committee and presenters have no identified conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgement of Financial Commercial Support

No financial commercial support was received for this educational activity.

Acknowledgement of In-Kind Commercial Support

No in-kind commercial support was received for this educational activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    Children's National Hospital designates this Enduring activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 1.00 ANCC
    Children's National Hospital will provide 1.00 Nursing Contact Hours for this Enduring activity.
  • 1.00 Participation
    Successful completion of this continuing education activity.
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Prerequisite Required:
Please proceed only if you have completed Disaster Response Collaborative Playback, Session 3 on PPN Learn.
During that session, you will receive a required attendance code needed to continue and claim CE credit here.