{"id":2703,"date":"2016-08-02T15:32:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abetteremergency.com\/blog\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2017-05-17T20:30:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T20:30:23","slug":"hics-incident-action-planning-iap-made-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hics-incident-action-planning-iap-made-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"HICS \u2013 Incident Action Planning (IAP) Made Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t tell you how many events and exercises I\u2019ve been involved in and when I inquire about their planning efforts I am told \u201cwe\u2019re too busy to plan\u201d. \u00a0\u00a0The concern that planning takes too much effort or time is actually partially the fault of current ICS training.\u00a0 I\u2019ve experienced and been told plenty of horror stories about people taking their ICS 300 class and being buried in FEMA forms which have little relevance to the organization\u2019s environment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Social-Media-ICS-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3841\" src=\"http:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Social-Media-ICS-1-300x218.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Social-Media-ICS-1-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Social-Media-ICS-1-768x558.png 768w, https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Social-Media-ICS-1-1024x744.png 1024w, https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Social-Media-ICS-1.png 1293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The 2014 HICS revisions tried to help cure the IAP resistance by publishing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emsa.ca.gov\/hospital_incident_command_system_forms_2014\">Quick Start form<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a good start but I\u2019ll go one better. In order to help get buy-in from your Incident Management Team on the need for actually doing IAP I\u2019m offering to send you a customized <a href=\"http:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IAP-Quick-Start.docx\">(IAP) Quick Start<\/a> which is one piece of paper, printed double-sided. I am confident with a little bit of effort to train your team members this form will work for 75% of your events where you should be using the HICS IAP process.<\/p>\n<p>I am a passionate believer in the ICS when used as designed and customized for your organization.\u00a0 Properly utilized it has the potential to save time, effort and mitigate unnecessary morbidity and mortality. \u00a0Feel free to contact me at <a href=\"mailto:abetteremergency@gmail.com\">abetteremergency@gmail.com<\/a> to take me up on the offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t tell you how many events and exercises I\u2019ve been involved in and when I inquire about their planning efforts I am told \u201cwe\u2019re too busy to plan\u201d. \u00a0\u00a0The  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[11,26,28,29,33,36,48,49,56,63,81,82,83,84,95],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-best-practices","tag-disaster","tag-disaster-response","tag-disasters","tag-earthquake","tag-emergency-management","tag-hospital-incident-command-system","tag-hospitals","tag-incident-response","tag-media","tag-preparedness","tag-protection","tag-public-health","tag-public-safety","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/4316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}