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About the Biocontainment Unit Training Strategies Toolkit
The Biocontainment Unit Training Strategies Toolkit, developed by NETEC’s Biocontainment Unit Leadership Workgroup with members from the nation’s Regional Emerging Special Pathogens Treatment Centers (RESPTCs), is a resource for health care facilities at every level of special pathogens care.
This toolkit includes strategies for staff recruitment, training, retention, and sustainment of staff who may be working in special pathogen isolation areas. All facilities, regardless of the type, should incorporate preparedness strategies into every day patient care. Each chapter outlines the differentiated level of care required within each tier of the regional approach. The document is meant to serve programs as a guide and a tool.
How to Use the Toolkit
Each chapter is designed to be freestanding and can be utilized as a standalone tool without reference to the entire document. Because of this design, there may be intentional redundancy among the chapters. Additional resources, including examples and templates from the RESPTCs, can be found in the NETEC Resource Library.
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The Biocontainment Unit Training Strategies Toolkit and the National Special Pathogens System of Care (NSPS)
This iteration of the Biocontainment Unit Strategies Toolkit, initiated by the NETEC Biocontainment Unit Leadership Workgroup in 2017 and published in early 2023, reflects the tiered national strategy for response as it stood in 2019. In the subsequent months, NETEC and RESPTC experts, alongside health care leaders around the country, identified the need to further refine, invest in, and formalize the national response to special pathogens. The burgeoning National Special Pathogens System of Care (NSPS), described briefly in the preface of this document, represents the formalization of this effort. Learn more about the NSPS
While the characteristics and capabilities of the facilities described in this toolkit may not align precisely with those in development today for each of the NSPS Care Delivery Network tiers, the majority of the principles described remain instructive, valuable, and adaptable to the needs of special pathogens care facilities around the U.S.
The Biocontainment Unit Leadership Workgroup anticipates providing updated guidance, and an updated version of the Biocontainment Unit Strategies Toolkit, for facilities and health care workers as the NSPS continues to develop, today and beyond.
