{"id":70519,"date":"2004-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-to-run-second-bioterrorism-exercise-in-november\/"},"modified":"2004-10-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T00:00:00","slug":"uri-to-run-second-bioterrorism-exercise-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/10\/uri-to-run-second-bioterrorism-exercise-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 to run second bioterrorism exercise in November"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tUniversity to offer training workshop,

\nafternoon mock medication distribution<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 29, 2004 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 has been called upon by the state Department of Health to conduct another bioterrorism response clinic exercise on Friday, Nov. 19, after having successfully run the largest university-based simulated clinic in the nation last spring.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe demonstration in November is in response to the Homeland Security requirement that states be able to mobilize clinics quickly to provide vaccinations to the general population. A smallpox outbreak in Europe or the United States will be simulated for this exercise. Last spring, the scenario involved the release of anthrax and the distribution of a mock oral medication to about 1,400 patient volunteers.<\/p>\n


\n\tThis fall\u2019s demonstration will be smaller and will provide volunteer patients with a \u201cmock\u201d smallpox vaccination. A cotton swab will be used to simulate a vaccination. The vaccination clinic will run from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in Keaney Gymnasium, and like the first clinic, the organizers are seeking student and campus community volunteers. Professor Thomas Mather, director of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Center for Vector-Borne Disease in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences, is heading the effort.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cLast spring, the University showed the entire state that it is a resource for testing emergency preparedness in the event of a bioterrorism event,\u201d Mather said. \u201cNursing, pharmacy students, other students, and our faculty and staff all made this a priority and it led to great success. That level of participation led to the health department\u2019s request for another exercise at 溏心vlog免费B站 this fall,\u201d said Mather, who coordinated the spring event.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe first part of the program begins with a workshop in Kirk Auditorium on the Kingston Campus from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. for medical care providers. 溏心vlog免费B站 Clinical Instructor of Nursing Nancy Doyle Moss, co-director of the program, said that the forum is open to doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others who would be involved in setting up emergency drug distribution clinics. There will be presentations by experts on the disease process of smallpox, the vaccination process, and training for clinic workers.<\/p>\n


\n\tAmong the participants in the morning program and the afternoon exercise will be 25 registered nurses from The Miriam Hospital who are enrolled in the Registered Nurse-to-Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at 溏心vlog免费B站. \u201cThey will take a leadership role in the exercise, and they will be mentors to our student-nurse volunteers,\u201d Doyle-Moss said.<\/p>\n


\n\tThese are among the goals clinic organizers have for the clinic:<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 Provide a training venue for health workers in Rhode Island who may be involved in an emergency inoculation program.

\n\t\u2022 Provide specific training to inoculation staff on the technical details of administering the smallpox vaccine.

\n\t\u2022 Make this clinic available as a training event for the education of other sites throughout Rhode Island and New England.<\/p>\n


\n\tAnother major goal of the clinic is to develop a cadre of informed citizens from among the student population, so that more people will know how to react and possibly how to assist an operation in the face of a smallpox emergency. <\/p>\n


\n\tMather said 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Health Services staff, nursing students and faculty who help run the clinic will be able to bring important skills to any emergency or places where the students may eventually work.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cAgain we are relying on our students to volunteer as patients to help us with this important civil preparedness exercise,\u201d Mather said. \u201cStudents and others who volunteer as patients will gain a common-sense understanding of how such a clinic would operate in an emergency and would be better prepared to make informed decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThis exercise differs from the anthrax clinic because smallpox is a contagious disease. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control, direct and fairly prolonged face-to-face contact is required to spread smallpox from one person to another. Smallpox also can be spread through direct contact with infected bodily fluids or contaminated objects such as bedding or clothing.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIf there is an outbreak, we\u2019ll need to have clinics up and running within 10 days,\u201d Doyle-Moss said. \u201cEvery person who comes in contact with smallpox will transmit it to 20 more. But if people get the vaccine within four days of their exposure, they should not contract the disease.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

University to offer training workshop, afternoon mock medication distribution KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 29, 2004 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 has been called upon by the state Department of Health to conduct another bioterrorism response clinic exercise on Friday, Nov. 19, after having successfully run the largest university-based simulated clinic in the nation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}