Ebook: Violence in the Emergency Department : Tools and Strategies to Create a Violence-Free ED
Author: Patricia Allen
- Tags: Violence in hospitals -- Prevention., Hospitals -- Emergency services -- Safety measures.
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
- City: New York, United States
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- epub
With this book, Allen educates healthcare professionals, particularly Emergency Department / Emergency Room personnel, and ED and hospital administrators, about ED violence to emphasize that this kind of violence poses a serious and real threat to personnel and facilities. Allen provides authoritative guidance, assessment tools, and a direction for creating a violence-free ED Environment. Violence in the Emergency Department delivers superior, readable, concise, and useable content in digestible chunks that is supported throughout using exhibits, photos, charts and graphs. Personal case scenarios, anecdotes, and research are used to help the reader understand the relationship between healthcare, hospital environmental changes, and ED violence. Highlight of this book: .: Provides a historical, theoretical backdrop for why violence has emerged in the ED, including discussions on socio-political changes and 9/11; Includes a section discussing how to assess risks of violence in the ED; Presents guides on communication strategies with violence patients and how to implement a violence defense pla
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