The United States Health and Human Services news release dated 16 SEP 14
“A team of specialized officers from the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is being prepared to deploy to manage and staff a previously announced U.S. Department of Defense hospital in Liberia to care for health care workers who become ill from Ebola.”
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2014pres/09/20140916b.html
As commissioned corps officers prepare for the possibility of deployment in order to combat the threat of Ebola, it is absolutely imperative that these officers are fully prepared and protected. The N-PAC Readiness and Response subcommittee is committed to providing resources to nurse category officers in order to facilitate maximum force health protection. Below, you will find several links to resources that, as a commissioned corps officer, you should be familiar with as soon as possible in order to support the Ebola response at home and abroad.
National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public health:
http://ncdmph.usuhs.edu/KnowledgeLearning/2014-10Ebola.htm
National Library of Medicine http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/ebola_2014.html
CDC Ebola Microsite (a collection of vetted web pages) for healthcare workers. With a simple embed code, a hospital or health system website administrator can pull in a collection of dozens of CDC pages, a news feed, and a twitter feed featuring the most current Ebola content, guidance and resources for healthcare practitioners. The embed code for this microsite is available in CDC’s new syndication site, the Public Health Media
Library. Ebola HTML content, images, and other media are being
added and also available for syndication from this site.
https://tools.cdc.gov/medialibrary/?mediaId=121280
Email IMTech@cdc.gov for technical support issues regarding the
above CDC resource.
“There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough
preparation. Veneer isn't worth anything.”
-George Washington Carver
