Emergency Preparedness
NJHA Library & Links
The library resources can assist staff with preparedness, current awareness and JCAHO compliance. It includes selected
Web sites, literature, books and audiovisuals and NJHA's listservs, articles and seminar handouts.
Resources: Executive Window - Emergency PreparednessThis extensive area includes library resources such as books, videos and literature and extensive Web links. It is arranged like a book with a table of contents to place the most authoritative Web sites and resources at your fingertips.
Listserv: NJHA-Emergency Preparedness Forum (e-mail discussion group)Created by NJHA for emergency preparedness hospital contacts only, by invitation from NJHA. This moderated interactive e-mail and bulletin board forum provides two-way communication for relevant issues, notices, updates, files, notes and inquiries as well as a quick and easy technique to share and network with other emergency preparedness staff. The key feature is a listserv, delivering messages directly to e-mail, and it includes an online Web-based searchable archive.
Seminar Handouts: Thinking the Unthinkable - Biochemical Terrorism Information ResourcesThese handouts and slides are from four of the speakers at this 2001 seminar including presenter from the CDC, National Library of Medicine and the USAMRID Chemical Division as well as NJHA.
Article: It Wasn't Raining When Noah Built the Ark: Disaster Preparedness for Hospitals and Medical Librarians Post September 11An NJHA article by the NJHA library director and published by Haworth Information Press.