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 […]
Impact Factors in Hospital Violence Reduction
Impact Factors in Hospital Violence The following causal factors are based on the US Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) analysis of risk factors for violence in hospital services. Use of hospitals by police and criminal justice agencies for criminal holds and the care of acutely disturbed persons Acute and Chronic mental health patients The […]
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. […]