Medical Surge Community Recovery Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions Emergency Operations Coordination Public Health Laboratory Testing Emergency Public Information and Warning Public Health Surveillance and Fatality Management Services Epidemiological Investigation Responder Safety and Health Information Sharing Volunteer Management Mass Care Medical Countermeasure Dispensing This cell is intentionally blank Establish Exercise Objectives Your next step is to establish your Capability-Based Objectives exercise objectives. FEMA notes that Without well written and clearly defined objectives, the "an objective is a description of the exercise participants, to include the players, controllers performance you expect from and evaluators, have no way to determine if a participants to demonstrate capability has been successfully demonstrated. Clearly competence. Objectives are specific and defined objectives provide the emergency preparedness and response community the means to performance based. A small exercise structure their own efforts towards the can have as few as two or three accomplishment of the objective and acceptable objectives; a large, national exercise can achievement of the desired capabilities. have as many as 100. For an average Texas Department of State Health Services exercise, 10 or fewer objectives are Writing Capability-Based Exercise Objectives recommended." As stated previously, HSEEP suggests that the exercise planning team should align each exercise objective to one or more core capabilities. You identified the core capabilities to test in the checklist in the previous section. Now you have to write exercise objectives that align with them. First, you need to look at the SMART approach to writing exercise objectives. SMART is an acronym that stands for the key aspects of a good objective. These aspects are explained in more detail below. Simple/Specific A good objective is simple and clearly phrased. It is brief and easy to understand. A good objective also is detailed and well defined so you know where you are going and what to expect when you get there.
Community Recovery Medical Surge Emergency Operations Coordination Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions Emergency Public Information and Warning Public Health Laboratory Testing Fatality Management Services Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation Information Sharing Responder Safety and Health Mass Care Volunteer Management Medical Countermeasure Dispensing This cell is intentionally blank Establish Exercise Objectives Capability-Based Objectives Without well written and clearly defined objectives, the exercise participants, to include the players, controllers and evaluators, have no way to determine if a capability has been successfully demonstrated. Clearly defined objectives provide the emergency preparedness and response community the means to structure their own efforts towards the accomplishment of the objective and acceptable achievement of the desired capabilities. Texas Department of State Health Services Writing Capability-Based Exercise Objectives Your next step is to establish your exercise objectives. FEMA notes that "an objective is a description of the performance you expect from participants to demonstrate competence. Objectives are specific and performance based. A small exercise can have as few as two or three objectives; a large, national exercise can have as many as 100. For an average exercise, 10 or fewer objectives are recommended." As stated previously, HSEEP suggests that the exercise planning team should align each exercise objective to one or more core capabilities. You identified the core capabilities to test in the checklist in the previous section. Now you have to write exercise objectives that align with them. First, you need to look at the SMART approach to writing exercise objectives. SMART is an acronym that stands for the key aspects of a good objective. These aspects are explained in more detail below. Simple/Specific A good objective is simple and clearly phrased. It is brief and easy to understand. A good objective also is detailed and well defined so you know where you are going and what to expect when you get there.
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