Managing Challenging Behaviours in Dementia Care 8

Restraint Training: Floor-Based Restraint Controversy

Floor Based Restraint Controversy In a call to ban prone restraint, a leading mental health charity has suggested that the use of prone restraint is degrading, humiliating and has no place in a civilised modern healthcare system.  The charity also linked prone restraint to numerous deaths which have occurred proximal to restraint in a way that

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Conflict Resolution:  Review and Report

Conflict Resolution: Review and Report

Conflict Resolution: Review and Report Here is a video about Conflict Resolution: Review and Report which describes how we achieve better final outcomes when we interact with people.  Achieving Closure and Improved Future Performance: Gerard O’Dea is a conflict management, personal safety and physical interventions training consultant.  He is the training director for Dynamis, a specialist

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Restraint Training: Unsafe Handling caused death of resident and £57,000 fine

A South Lanarkshire care home provider was heavily fined after an elderly resident died after breaking her neck in a fall. At Hamilton Sheriff Court, BUPA Care Homes (Carrick) Ltd was fined £57,000 after pleading guilty to a breach of Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, which led to the

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Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression 25

Near Misses and Violence Risk Management in Restraint Training

Near Miss:       “An unplanned event or situation that could have resulted in injury, illness, damage or loss but did not do so due to chance, corrective action or timely intervention.”     Overheard recently on a training course:    “The client reached forward and grabbed the driver of the car, from the

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