The National Nurse Emergency Preparedness Initiative (NNEPI)

Course overview

The National Nurse Emergency Preparedness Initiative (NNEPI) is a national initiative for the advancement of education and policy related to nurse emergency preparedness. NNEPI is a web-based training initiative for nurses focused on providing opportunities for dynamic and interactive application of both theory and practice through scenario-based learning. The design of the NNEPI training program supports the national initiative to achieve target levels of capability in protecting against, responding to and recovering from major emergencies that could affect the United States and its territories. The content of the course is mapped to the Universal Task List Taxonomy, which was developed to track the many tasks required to achieve target capability levels The NNEPI course trains nurses to carry out key tasks within the Protect, Respond and Recover missions.