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Sample Planning Template—
Tabletop Exercise (cont’d)

Tabletop Exercise
Problem Statements: These are questions A. Public health nursing
that the facilitator can verbally present which What are your priorities and
are then discussed, one at a time, by the responsibilities?
group. Or written detailed events (messages) What are the time constraints you face?
and related discussion questions can be given
to individuals to answer from the perspective B. Health Officer
of their own organization and role, and then As Incident Commander, what are your
discussed in the group. (example) priorities and responsibilities?
Scenario Development (Move II) At 12 noon on Tuesday, floodwaters reach the
Anytown waste treatment facility…. The scenario and the chronological events continue
here.

Problem Statements:
Health Officer
How will you adjust your priorities based on this new information?

Scenario Development (Move III) By Tuesday morning, shelters are operating in two
regional high schools. However, at around 1 PM, rapidly rising floodwaters overtake a bus
headed for a shelter, filled with patients from the Anytown Rehabilitation Centre. Before
rescuers can reach the bus, several elderly and immunocompromised evacuees are exposed
to contaminated floodwater…. The scenario and chronological events continue here.

Problem Statements:
Epidemiologist
What are your priorities in response to this exposure?

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