Violence Inoculation for Healthcare Professionals

About this course

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:The prevalence and causes of today's healthcare violenceThe importance of documentation of violent incidentsModifying the U.S. Marine Corp "Left-of-Bang" tactical mindset to the healthcare environment Understanding the relationship between anxiety, stress and violencePre-attack indicatorsWhy 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 i