Reduce Response Time to Routine Point-of-Care Threats

Part II of this three-part series summarizes the 2018 Nursing Executive Center national meeting presentation "Rebuild the Foundation for a Resilient Workforce." Violence and point-of-care safety threats are now commonplace in health care settings, with a 110% increase in reported incidents of violence against health care workers over the past 10 years. As a result, many frontline clinicians don’t feel safe at work. In this session, we present four strategies to reduce response time to safety threats that help staff feel safe and stay safe at work.

What You'll Learn:

• How to address warning signs of escalation through early identification of disruptive behavior
• How to maximize security patrols that focus first on unit safety
• How to build a rapid response team to de-escalate behavioral health patients in acute crisis, independent of your organization's inpatient psychiatric resources or lack thereof

Presenter: Lauren Rewers

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