Medical Reserve Corps Orientation Post Test

MRC Orientation Post Test

Please complete indicating T or F for each item after taking the orientation.
1.Name
2.E-mail Address
3.MRC members are at the ready to participate in local health-medical disaster responses.
4.MRC volunteers might be deployed to a mass dispensing site (POD) or an emergency shelter or alternate care site.
5.MRC would be deployed by the Sonoma County Transportation Department.
6.MRC members need to keep their information current on the Disaster Healthcare Volunteers/DHV website.
7.MRC members don’t get any information when they are deployed.
8.The Health Department doesn’t need to follow disaster response plans.
9.Communicable diseases include only the flu.
10.An epidemic is a very local outbreak with only a few cases reported.
11.A response to a pandemic would not include use of the Incident Command System.
12.In a pandemic MRC could help with vaccine administration, mental health impacts or a surge of patients in hospitals.
13.MRC are considered disaster service workers (DSW).
14.Sonoma County local disasters can be proclaimed only by the Governor.
15.Sonoma County Emergency Services is important in disaster response.
16.ICS refers to the Internal Controller System for emergency management.
17.The ICS is a flexible, action based, hierarchical, integrated, unity-of-command system followed in disasters by all including MRC volunteers.
18.The MRC program policy requires volunteer registration, training, supervision and maintenance.
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