Three ways the security profession can take ownership of violence prevention in healthcare
If we allow others to take the lead, then our organizations will miss out on utilizing their best resource. Violence prevention is our business.
Category: healthcare security
The need for community – A conversation with Brine Hamilton, CHPA
We each have the power to make one another better, and in turn we improve ourselves.
The Strategic Security Officer
Healthcare security officers face every possible tactical challenge within the scope of a single shift. From a simple customer service interaction, to responding to a person engaged in active assaultive behavior, these officers make decisions every day that have far reaching implications for their organizations.
Breakdown: IAHSSF’s Threat Assessment Strategies to Mitigating Violence in Healthcare
For those who have been in the industry for a while, we are seeing a shift toward more proactive methods like threat assessment. It is a critical shift for our industry, and I am grateful to see work like this being produced.
H.R. 1309, Congress’s Workplace Violence Act, here is what you need to know
If regulations are needed to force healthcare organizations to change then that is an unfortunate reality.
Why Proactive?
Even when we react to something like a theft or an act of violence, we must be able to carry our response forward into new measures of prevention to ensure the event is not repeated.
Bedside Risk Assessment, Part 5 – Now What?
This week I want us to wrap this discussion up by talking about the ‘now what’. What I mean is, you have the tool, you use the tool, but then what do we do with the information provided by the tool.
Bedside Risk Assessments, Part 4 – What’s the point?
This is the match, this is the team that is needed; operational experts on the clinical side working hand-in-hand with operational experts on the security side.
