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Welcome to INVENT . THE ILLINOIS NURSE TEAM . The Illinois Nurse Team (INVENT) is a volunteer group of Registered Nurses (RNs) trained to provide nursing care during a state declared disaster or emergency situation. Examples of circumstances under which INVENT may be activated include; mass casualty incidents, mass immunization efforts, or local hospital surges.INVENT may also be activated to enhance an IMERT response, to staff field hospitals, to assist local health departments with post-exposure follow-up, and to assist with the Illinois Poison Control Disaster Hotline. Partnering with other agencies such as: IDPH, Emergency Medical Services for Children, IMERT, Emergency Nurses Associations, Illinois College of Emergency Physicians, and Illinois Poison Control, nurses from all backgrounds are pre-credentialed and provided with preparedness training. We are currently seeking RNs from all backgrounds and specialty areas to join INVENT.
Deployment Development Training Conference for Team Members to Practice & Prepare
. The Illinois Medical Emergency Response Team (IMERT) and INVENT, the Illinois Nurse Team, introduced a new training course for its members in May. The Deployment Development Training program provided two days of skills demonstration and practice exercises in a simulated deployment environment. The debut Deployment Development was held May 2-3, 2009, at the ILEAS Training Center in Urbana and attracted about 80 team members. The program was developed to teach the confidence and practical skills necessary to be a better disaster responder, focusing on communication and collaboration as the keys to success for a more effective team. Participants were required to report to the seminar as they would for a real-world deployment, in uniform with their personal gear cache packed and ready for use. The first day of the seminar combined presentations and hands-on skills stations to demonstrate the IMERT equipment package and its utilization in an alternate-case site setting. All of the elements critical to establishing a successful deployment environment were included. Participants determined better ways to pack their personal gear caches; reviewed the supplies that comprise the medical package; set up and organized supplies and equipment as it would be in a real deployment; utilized the radios and patient scanners, learned about specialized equipment including the GenSat trailer and disaster tent; practiced patient conveyance procedures with stretchers, backboards, and 4-wheel utility vehicles; and reviewed JumpSTART triage protocols. On the second day, participants put their skills to the test in a daylong real-time exercise that simulated a deployment exactly as IMERT-INVENT members will experience it in real-world action. As the seminar was held right as the swine flu outbreak was building, the scenario simulated a pandemic. The feedback received was overwhelmingly positive, both from team members who have participated in previous deployments and those for whom this was the first “field” experience with the IMERT-INVENT team. Participants called the new program “the best IMERT training [they’d] ever been to” and “the ultimate see-it, hear-it, do-it weekend.” As the course was so well-received, IMERT-INVENT plans to offer Deployment Development Training seminars on a more frequent basis. The seminar is open to all IMERT-INVENT team members looking for additional training experience and continuing education credit. . News .
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