Hospital Violence Reduction – Environment and Physical Design
Emergency departments face unique security challenges. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) measures a hospital’s environment of care partly by how well it “controls access to and egress from security-sensitive areas.” For trauma centres and emergency departments — where emotions run high and vulnerable patients converge — the physical environment itself becomes […]
Hospital Violence Reduction – Sentinel Events
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Hospital Violence Reduction – Permission to Intervene
Hospital Violence Reduction: Permission to Intervene In some environments, there is sometimes still a question about whether a security officer or a nurse who uses force in a situation could rely on the backing of their management — and the backing of the hospital — if they intervene and are then challenged legally. The intrinsic […]