Assessing and Preventing Violence in the Healthcare Setting

This course teaches acupuncturists and Chinese medicine practitioners to recognize and prevent patient violence, helping safeguard themselves, their staff, and patients through readings and a short audio by Bob Flaws.

Bob Flaws
Bob Flaws

Course Overview

Please Note: This is a Reading course.

 

Acupuncturists and practitioners of Chinese Medicine are often the last stop for patients with difficult conditions. These patients often experience a loss of hope struggling with their condition coupled with anger towards the medical establishment. Learning to spot the warning signs of violence can be the difference in helping you safeguard yourself, your staff and your patients.

 

This class will help you better assess and prevent violence in your patient population. The course materials consist of several required on-line readings about assessing and preventing patient violence as well as a short digital audio file by Bob Flaws on the importance of this course.

Objectives

  • Practitioners will understand how to assess violence in patient populations

  • Practitioners will understand how to prevent violence in the clinical setting

  • Practitioners will understand ways to better respond to violence and potentially violent situations

Outline

  • 0 hrs - 15 min

    Reading - Violence risk assessment, 5 steps for increasing clinician safety and preventing violence

  • 15 min - 30 min

    Reading - Could your Patient or Colleague become Violent, Responding to a Potentially Violent Person

  • 30 min - 45 min

    Reading - How to Detect Potentially Violent People in the Work Place, Suicidality and Violence in Patients with HIV/AIDS

  • 45 min - 1 hrs

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Full Biography

Bob Flaws

Bob Flaws began his study of Chinese medicine in 1977, and has since become one of the best-known English-language teachers, authors and practitioners of Chinese medicine. A champion of both the paradigm and process of Chinese medicine, Bob has written, translated and/or published over 80 books and hundreds of articles on the subject.

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More Details

  • CPDs:

    Approved By: AACMA (1), ANTA (1), ATMS (1), Acupuncture NZ (1), NCCAOM (1), Standard Certificate (1)

  • Language: English

  • Course Type: Reading

  • Course Length: 1 h

  • Course Notes: Notes are provided with this course.

  • Access Period: Lifetime

$50.17