Case Study: Foster Carers Training
Foster Carers Training in Managing Challenging Behaviours and Physical Intervention Foster Carers Training Project: 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 […]
National Personal Safety Day – Lone Working Book from Dynamis
Lone Working Personal Safety – A guidebook for health and social care workers will give you practical and largely unexplored personal safety advice which will inform and enhance how you make decisions. It will also widen the discussions you have within your team about how you as a group can improve your personal safety systems. […]
Hospital Violence Reduction and SCARF Triggers
Hospital Violence Triggers Hospital Violence Triggers for Conflict or Crisis In a recent MORI opinion poll patients indicated that they want to feel a close presence of clinical staff and to receive better communication from staff. “Information is crucial – lack of information contributes to anxiety and discomfort of patients and carers who are […]
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 […]