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title: Exercise Development Course
description: Reserve your spot for the Exercise Development Course
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# Exercise Design Workshop

January 13-15, 2026 | 8:00-4:30, daily

Omaha, Nebraska  
Hilton Garden Inn - Omaha West

This three day activity-based course is designed to prepare participants to be the in-house disaster exercise design expert for their facility. This training will focused on both discussion and operations-based exercise development. 

Participants will earn what they need to do to comply with CMS, Joint Commission, and other regulatory bodies’ required exercises.  

### Registration is Open

**Participants will learn:** 

- 7 types of exercises including considerations involving cost, time frame and personnel  

- Overview of a Comprehensive Exercise Plan  

- Exercise Design Process  

- Exercise Facilitation 

- After Action Reports and Improvement Plans as required by accrediting agencies  

- Exercise documentation including Situation Manual, Exercise Plan, Controller/Evaluator Handbook, Master Scenario Events List (MSEL), and Evaluator Tools  

- How to write a Tabletop and Full-Scale Exercise 

 

**Participants will spend more than half their time in each course in skill building activities. Working in teams, participants will:** 

- Develop and conduct a tabletop exercise  

- Participate in a Functional Exercise  

- Develop an operations-based exercise (Full-Scale Exercise)  

 

Questions? E-mail: [events@transcendx.us](mailto:events@transcendx.us)

## *Due to the hands-on nature of the courses, class sizes are limited to 40 for each course. **When the course is filled, a waiting list will become available. *

## Rates

### Nebraska Residents: $150 Out-of-State Participants: $250

*Breakfast and Lunch are included for all attendees.*

## Location

### Hilton Garden Inn Omaha West

*17879 Chicago St. Omaha, NE 68118*

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