Hospital Violence Reduction – Ambassador Programmes
In busy Emergency Departments, it has been the practice of some hospitals in the USA to run volunteer programs for medical students and other interested people to be inducted into and trained in order to become
as a key ingredient of their Hospital Violence Programmes to reduce incident frequency and severity.
Serving in a purely customer-service function, they carry out duties as follows within Hospital Violence Programmes:
It may be possible that a ‘bank’ of staff from other areas of the hospital (where the workload is steadier and less changeable in the short-term) could be created and trained to respond in this Ambassador Role at peak times in the ER.
This could have a beneficial impact on nurse productivity and also patient and visitor flow in regards to the access-control issues mentioned in our earlier
We recommend hospitals explore how ER Ambassadors might be trained and prepared to create a customer-service ‘buffer’ for the ER staff, especially during peak periods to enhance their Hospital Violence Programmes.
, personal safety and physical interventions training consultant. He is the training director for Dynamis, a specialist provider of personal safety and violence management programmes and the European Adviser for ‘Verbal Defense and Influence’, a global programme which addresses the spectrum of human conflict.
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