Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #5
The technique being demonstrated in the picture accompanying this post is promoted as a way for controlling violent patients in a hospital setting. Unfortunately, it is potentially a deadly restraint — and its use might go far beyond control and extend to culpable homicide or corporate manslaughter. ⚠️ Warning: This restraint technique is deadly. If […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #3
The image accompanying this post was apparently taken in 1907 of the City of London Police learning or demonstrating restraint techniques. They are clearly wearing jackets which suggest that there may have been input from some Japanese martial arts into the restraint techniques they were learning at the time. Numerous famous Japanese Judo and Jujitsu […]
Safe Holding Training – Manage Distress – Scotland
The Challenge of Distressed Behaviour in Care Gerard O’Dea, our Director of Training, was recently asked to provide an opinion on how care homes in Scotland can deal with the issues of distressed, difficult, or dangerous behaviours when caring for older people in their services — sometimes known as Safe Holding Training. In this long-format […]
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 […]
£150,000 fine for Care Home Wheelchair Restraint Strap Death
A private healthcare company was fined £150,000 in January 2012 after admitting its part in the death of an elderly nursing home resident who was strangled by a wheelchair lap belt. Brigid O’Callaghan, known as Vera, was found dead on the morning of October 28, 2005 at Amberley Court Nursing Home in Edgbaston, Birmingham. […]
We do Fire Drills, not Fire Talks, for performance outside the classroom
Emotionally safe performance driven instruction is a key component of Vistelar’s training methodology. What does that mean? First, we want our training to be emotionally safe, where students can feel safe in making mistakes and learning. Then, it has to be performance driven so that students know how to perform something, rather than just understanding […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Massive Fines in Elderly Care Home Worker Stabbing
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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 […]
Case Study: Mental Health Unit Restraint Reduction Training
How Dynamis helped a mental health unit achieve a 90% reduction in mechanical restraint use and a 95% staff satisfaction rating, while meeting JCIA international standards. The Setting This was an ‘open’ psychiatric unit with separate male and female wards, delivering services in a highly multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-national environment. The unit faced the daily challenge […]