Case Study: Foster Carers Training
The Training Challenge A foster agency, contracted to the local authorities in its area, was receiving requests from its foster families to have training in the use of physical interventions. Families wanted clarity on the rules regarding this area and asked us for Foster Carers Training. The fostering agency maintained strong links to the local […]
National Personal Safety Day – Lone Working Book from Dynamis
Lone Working Personal Safety: A Guidebook for Health and Social Care Workers offers practical and largely unexplored personal safety advice that will inform and enhance how you make decisions — and widen the conversations you have within your team about improving your personal safety systems. The material has been specifically developed to provide workers in […]
Hospital Violence Reduction and SCARF Triggers
Why do patients and visitors become aggressive in emergency departments? Often, the answer lies not in the individual but in the environment — and how staff manage the five core social triggers first identified by neuroscience. The Information Gap In a MORI opinion poll, patients indicated that they want to feel a close presence of […]
Throwback Thursday: Restraint Chair in Oman
During a trip to the middle east back in 2010 to visit with a number of psychiatric institutions and hospitals to give advice and training, I recall being shown the ‘restraint chair’ in the picture at one of the units I visited. I remember being quite surprised at the sight. Even though I was aware of […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Dementia ward patient found bashed
ABC in Australia is reporting on an inquest that is ongoing in regard to violent attacks by a man in a high-care dementia ward which left one man dead and others in the ward seriously injured and terrified. Charles McCulloch, 94, was found dead in his bed a day after he had moved into a high-care […]