Prepare Iowa News
LMS Newsletter
December 2007
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Why did Santa visit Prepare Iowa?
To learn how to avoid airborne illnesses.
Contents:
General Announcements – New partnerships and the PrepareIowa Advisory Committee
Course Updates – Volunteer Management & Training, Disaster Mental Health for Children, Risk Communications for Special Populations
Tips
- New Partnerships - We are pleased to announce that the New York Department of Health has joined our multi-state Learning Management System partnership! We welcome their collaboration. View their site
- Advisory Commitee activities- The next LMS Advisory Committee meeting will be held sometime in late February. Please Contact Us if you are in Iowa and would like to participate via the Iowa Communications Network.
- HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Wishing you safe and healthy travels and celebrations.
- Volunteer Management for Public Health – Now Available!
This course is intended for public health agencies in Iowa who may need to utiliize volunteers in both emergency and non-emergency situations.
- Effect of Disasters on Mental Health: Children & Adolescents –
Now Available!
This course explains how children are affected by disaster, how to meet their needs when administering psychological first aid in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, and what signs and symptoms of mental health disorders to look for in the months that follow.
- Risk Communication for Special Populations - Now Available!
This course demonstrates how to define and locate special population groups in a community and ascertain how to best communicate with them in order to ensure that they understand the information needed to prepare, cope and recover from public health emergencies.
- Volunteer Training - Now Available on CD-ROM or Online!
- First Steps
This training is composed of 4 short modules:
- Incident Command System
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
This 15-minute training course for public health volunteers demonstrates the appropriate use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for protection from hazardous exposure and explains the use of other protocol (standard precautions, expanded precautions and hand hygiene) to protect themselves and others from infectious disease.
- Stress Management
This 15-minute training course for public health volunteers familiarizes them with the symptoms of traumatic stress, both during the event and afterwards, and provides them with methods to manage their stress, on-site, immediately after the event, and once they return to their everyday life.
This 15-minute training course for public health volunteers explains why they are an essential part of a successful emergency response and guides them through the process of becoming a volunteer.
This 15-minute training course for public health volunteers explains how the Incident Command System works and how they as volunteers fit into it.
You may view these, or any of our 220 Courses, in the Course Catalog
- Password Encryption
- How to Use the Course Rating System
New users to the system can create their own username and password. Current users can reset their password, but cannot change their username. If you forget your password, you can still use the password retrieval function or you can contact one of the LMS coordinators, who can reset your password.
After you complete a course, you are able to rate that course based on ease of use, quality of information, and overall satisfaction. Check it out in My Course > Completed Courses
You can contact the PrepareIowa Learning Management System coordinators by sending an email to prepareiowa@uiowa.edu
The PrepareIowa Learning Management System is a joint project of the Iowa Department of Public Health and the Upper Midwest Center for Public Health Preparedness at the University of Iowa.
