Healthcare Team Response To Emergencies - Instructor

Become authorized to teach physical stabilization (individual and team) and use of soft shields and restraints

Type:                      Instructor

Format:                  Onsite Instructor-Led

Length:                  Two Days

Price:                     $1,500 Per Person

Audience:               Organizational Instructors Within Healthcare 

Prerequisite:           Healthcare Workplace Violence Prevention and Intervention - Instructor

The prerequisite for this training is the Vistelar Healthcare Workplace Violence Prevention and Intervention - Instructor training program.

This training emphasizes knowing your options when a physical intervention may be necessary in an emergency situation, understanding the critical nature of making the decision to physically intervene, and how to make a justifiable and desirable decision to intervene. It includes training on stabilization techniques, the use of soft shields, and the application of restraints, with a focus on high level resistance and assaultive behavior scenarios.

Participants will be equipped to help their organization provide a safer environment, while meeting the newly issued (January 2022) Joint Commission Guidelines related to workplace violence prevention.

• Environmental situations that could compromise safety
• At-risk behaviors that could result in harm to self or others
• Aggressive or violent behaviors
• Physical assault
• Refusing medical or other intervention when doing so is likely to lead to serious injury or death
• Injuries that result from entering an unsafe situation too quickly

• Identify pre-incident indicators that can be a precursor to violence
• Be more situationally aware of escalating conflict that could lead to harm
• Act in an effective and safe manner when faced with violence
• Work as a team to bring violent situations safely and effectively under control
• Apply restraints as dictated by organizational policy
• Debrief, articulate, document, and report workplace violence incidents