Care worker ʻnight of terrorʼ with patient ‘like a horror film’
Care Worker Protection With the clear direction imposed by Health and Safety statute and regulations, employers whose workplaces have risks of violence or aggression to staff are compelled to assess those risks, document the assessment process and its outcomes, create a policy and relevant procedures which detail risk-control measures which can include a wide variety of […]
Elderly Care and how to manage aggression and violent behaviour with restraint training
Managing Aggression in Elderly Care We have come across a solicitors case which neatly summarises our points to the management of care homes across the country, which we gratefully re-produce here for posterity: A 75-year-old resident in a care home suffered from dementia. Since arriving at the home four months before the assault, he had committed […]
Restraint Training: Over 50% of NHS Assaults are Impacts
Assault Prevention is a key issue in healthcare and social care environments. In multiple research studies (see Breakaway – a fresh approach?), it has been found that over 50% of assaults on healthcare workers are kinetic: punches, slaps and kicks. Knowing this is important as it allows you to spend the right amount of training […]
Safe Holding Training – Bathing without the Battle or the Bruises!
What is great conflict management training?
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Restraint Training: Focussed on Tasks, not People ?
A Question of Focus Are our care staff giving more focus to the list of tasks and jobs to be done while on shift in their often overworked and under-resourced facilities, or are they focussed entirely on the people they are caring for? In terms of restraint, we see both subtle and grotesque versions […]
Restraint Training: Uncommon Sense in Safely Caring for Older People
Safely caring for older people who exhibit difficult-to-predict behaviours associated with the stresses of living in care can be quite an art! This week has all been about the uncommon sense involved in safely delivering personal care for unpredictable residents. A care home in the midlands commissioned our team to help them with issues around […]
Teenage Prison Abuse: Feedback and Bystanders in Restraint Reduction Training Initiatives
I wanted to add another comment in regard to Medway Secure Training Centre this week (Panorama goes undercover at young offenders’ unit – BBC …) about the lack of immediate accountability of the staff which seemed apparent on the programme. “in the Stanford Prison Experiment, the subjects who were randomly assigned as prison guards gradually […]
Teenage Prison Abuse in the UK: A question of Practice in Restraint Reduction Training
Should we be so surprised at the revelations at Medway Secure Training Centre in England last week? (Panorama goes undercover at young offenders’ unit – BBC …) One important barometer of the level of training and support that staff are receiving at an institution, care home or school is how they talk about their work, their […]
Restraint Training Continuous Improvement: Dynamis quality scores from 2015
Since January 2015 we have been collecting our feedback data through electronic surveys with all the attendees on our courses. Rather than hand out the proverbial “happy sheet” at the end of a long training day, our training team send learners a survey to complete perhaps a day or a week after their course has […]