disaster preparedness of schoolsbioterrorism, infectious diseases, and pandemics.A 2011 nationwide school pandemic preparedness study found schools to be deficient. We examined the impact of a school nurse educational intervention aimed at improving K-12 school biological event preparedness.

Task-Adaptive Information Distribution (TAID) systemdevelopment and exercise.The purpose of the TAID system is to assess the relevance of information for responders in a crisis from their task descriptions, their roles, information about their locations and the content of their communication.

A simulation-based curriculum was developed. The curriculum included four group exercises in which the participants developed a disaster plan for a simulated hospital. This was followed by a disaster simulation using the Disastermed.Ca Emergency Disaster Simulator computer software Version 3.5.2

qualitative study, project, examines the adoption process of social media in county-level emergency management departments

This study proposes a method of interactive plant simulation modeling which delivers the online simulated results to the field operators (FOPs) and induces them to take proper actions in the case of pre-identified accident scenarios in a chemical plant. The model can improve the effectiveness of the operator training system through interactively linking the trainee actions with the simulation model resulting in different accident scenarios with respect to each trainee’s competence when facing an accident.

This paper proposes a newarchitecture for a training systembased on the interconnection between real and virtual worlds extending the MPEG-V standard; allowing real and virtual units' simultaneous and real-time training using commercial off-the-shelf equipment, and including a novel subsystem for video management from both real and virtual sources.

 The phenomena explored within this study are interprofessional nontechnicalcompetencies for surgeons in disaster response.

The research focused primarily on the patterns of information exchange and thedistribution of tasks adopted by healthcare teams.

By comparing a scenario without preparedness with one in which supplies have been pre-positioned in the country and one in which investments in disaster management capabilities (DMC) have been made, we demonstrate the strong improvement potential of disaster preparedness activities.

Survey used to explore the perception of Jordanian RNs about their preparedness for disaster management.