The frequency of Active Shooter events continues to increase every year. The reasons and rationales are as varied as the number of random events themselves. It happens anywhere and it happens too often; it happens where we live, where we do our shopping, at school, at church, in public, where we vacation, and at work. When our workplace is a healthcare setting, we can be especially vulnerable. The simple truth is that there is probably no more terrifying event than an Active Shooter incident. It stands alone as the most aggravated form of workplace violence. This activity addresses preparation for an Active Shooter event. We review developing a personal action plan that involves interacting with staff members, patients and first responders. After completing this activity, providers and members of the healthcare team should be able to: evaluate the physiological and cognitive impact of extreme stress on decision-making and performance during active shooter events; differentiate effective response strategies and proactive preparation techniques including early recognition of workplace violence indicators that enhance survival outcomes; and integrate a personalized protective action plan with institutional protocols to optimize individual and team readiness for an active shooter incident.
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- Addiction Medicine
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Clinical Informatics
- Clinician Wellness & Burnout
- Communication & Shared Decision-Making
- Critical Care Medicine
- Diagnostic Radiology
- Emergency Medicine
- Family Medicine
- General & Adult Psychiatry
- General Internal Medicine
- General Operative Anesthesia
- General Pediatrics
- General Surgery
- Geriatric Medicine
- Health Equity & Inclusion
- Hospital Medicine
- Infectious Disease
- Maternal-Fetal Medicine
- Medical Genetics & Genomics
- Medical Leadership & Administration
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Orthopaedic Trauma
- Patient Safety & Quality Improvement
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- Pediatric Urology
- Practice Management & Ethics
- Surgical Critical Care
- Trauma Surgery
- Urology
- Vascular Neurology
- Vascular Surgery
- Anesthesiology
- Cardio-Vascular
- Cross-Specialty
- Emergency & Critical Care
- Infectious Disease
- Internal Medicine
- Medical Subspecialties
- Neurology
- Ob/Gyn
- Orthopedics
- Pediatrics
- Primary care
- Psychiatry
- Radiology
- Surgery
- Urology
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- Credit · Up to 2 credits
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ReleasedSep 2, 2025
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Last day to claim creditSep 3, 2028 2 years left
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