Violence Inoculation for Healthcare Professionals

Violence Inoculation for Healthcare Professionals udemy course

A Survival Guide

Completely re-imagined! This course has been re-written to better serve its target audiences.

Due to student feedback, content has been surgically edited to move content from 2.5 hours to 1.0 hour. This is to better facilitate the available time in a busy healthcare environment.

Healthcare workers experience extreme levels of violence. In fact, non-lethal assaults on nurses, technicians and physicians lead virtually every other career, including law enforcement and other widely presumed "dangerous" occupations.

Violence Inoculation for Healthcare Professionals provides awareness of the problem, its causes, and how healthcare staff can maintain a safe environment for themselves and their patients. The program includes:

1. The prevalence and causes of today's healthcare violence

2. The importance of documentation of violent incidents

3. Modifying the U.S. Marine Corp "Left-of-Bang" tactical mindset to the healthcare environment

4. Understanding the relationship between anxiety, stress and violence

5. Pre-attack indicators

   
   

Why Take This Course?

Students/Applicants:

• Students seldom receive orientation regarding violence in their newly-chosen profession. This unique overview inoculates those entering, or considering entering, the field. 

• The program provides a dose of reality before committing to an expensive training program or considering a position in healthcare or social service. 

• Violence Inoculation  minimizes the "gob smacked" factor that many new healthcare workers feel when they first step into their new role.

•  This awareness minimizes new hire  trauma (and related turn-over) and potentially patient dissatisfaction rates.

• It is only natural that veteran employees become de-sensitized and immune to the unique nature of their workplace. This one-hour program serves as a valuable reminder-- and contributes to staff safety, and patient satisfaction.

Healthcare/Organization Leadership:

The course provides a sense of structure to senior nursing staff, administrators, and healthcare executives who understand the violence situation, but are seeking a channel to communicate it to assigned staff.

As a healthcare leader, the course will reinforce your organization's competitiveness in the new world of HCAHPS and pay-for-performance.

Violence Inoculation: A Survival Manual for Healthcare Professionals:

• Is an excellent road map for mentoring and leading junior staff in difficult times.

• Has been re-written to maximize time without sacrificing efficacy.

• Delivers a sense of confidence to both clinical and ancillary staff when facing aggressive, and potentially violent behavior.

• Directly contributes to the Environment of Care. (and patient safety)

• Responds to staff concerns regarding their personal safety and management's response to those issues.