How to Prevent and Respond to Violence in Hospitals
Learning to recognize escalating behaviors and practicing de-escalation skills are essential to addressing the rise in hospital violence.
Learning to recognize escalating behaviors and practicing de-escalation skills are essential to addressing the rise in hospital violence.
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The hospital’s security cameras captured the suspect stabbing both victims until bystanders restrained her.
Threat assessment training should be provided to anyone in any community, not just to campus behavioral intervention team members.
The rate of physical attacks on New Jersey healthcare workers increased 11% over the past three years, while verbal abuse rose by 25%.
In conjunction with implementing best safety practices and staff training, wearable panic buttons can improve nurse safety.
Three Encino Hospital Medical Center clinicians were stabbed by a patient asking for medical treatment for anxiety.
The fatal hospital shootings happened at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio.
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