Restraint Training: Over 50% of NHS Assaults are Impacts
Assault Prevention is a key issue in healthcare and social care environments. In multiple research studies (see Breakaway – a fresh approach?), it has been found that over 50% of assaults on healthcare workers are kinetic: punches, slaps and kicks. Knowing this is important as it allows you to spend the right amount of training […]
Hospital Violence Reduction – Legislative Landscape
There is a trend in many countries to bring into play specific legislation which seeks to protect public services workers from crimes of violence and aggression committed against them. Often this legislation places higher sentencing tariffs for crimes of assault against emergency services workers. While undoubtedly a control measure which primarily seeks to deter […]
Hospital Violence Reduction – Organisational Commitment
Leadership Commitment to the Hospital Violence Reduction Project Sometimes in the hospitals we visit, nursing staff do not feel that they have the full support of the organisation in managing incidents of violence or aggression in their work, even though there is an active Hospital Violence Reduction Project in play. This situation is underlined by situations seen on a […]
Hospital Violence Reduction – Environment and Physical Design
According to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), one element of performance by which a hospital’s environment of care is measured is that “the hospital controls access to and egress from security-sensitive areas, as determined by the hospital. Ambulatory and Ambulance entrances should be separate, with electronically operated locks, and glass should […]
Hospital Violence Reduction – Sentinel Events
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Hospital Violence Reduction – Permission to Intervene
Hospital Violence Reduction Personal Factors 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 his/her management, and/or the backing of the hospital, if they intervene with force in a situation and are then challenged legally. […]