Restraint Reduction Outcomes
Restraint Reduction OutcomesThe new trainer team for this service began rolling out their own programme (a four-day, full-spectrum course for their LD/MH setting) to their staff in October. By December, they had seen dramatic restraint reduction outcomes in key indicators such as time-in-restraint, floor-based-restraints and number-of-restraints for their high-frequency service users. “The amount of time we
Breakaway training in care
Breakaway training in care – an example of positive outcomesAt one point early in the training programme it becomes important to look at physical self-protection training, especially if the service data shows that some service users, when distressed, target staff with violence by grabbing, hitting or throwing objects at them.In the past, the staff were
Becoming an effective PMVA Trainer
Becoming an effective PMVA TrainerProbably the most important decision a company makes when it wants to change the culture of their workplace is this: Which personalities will lead the training effort? In on successful case we were involved with, the organisation chose three of their most senior carers, who had all been in the service for
social contract in restraint reduction
The Social Contract in Restraint Reduction What happens when people can’t predict with any certainty how an organisation will respond to their transgression of an agreement? If a social contract is broken, and the consequences could slide on a scale from ‘nothing’ to ‘serious’ – how many people would take the chance to break the contract? Well, the
