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Violence in the Emergency Department: Tools & Strategies to Create a...
by Allen, Patricia | PB | Good
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780826110596
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- Social Science, Medical
- Publication Name
- Violence in the Emergency Department : Tools and Strategies to Create a Violence-Free Ed
- Publisher
- Springer
- Subject
- Hospital Administration & Care, Violence in Society, Allied Health Services / Emergency Medical Services
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer
ISBN-10
0826110592
ISBN-13
9780826110596
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70938868
Product Key Features
Subject
Hospital Administration & Care, Violence in Society, Allied Health Services / Emergency Medical Services
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Publication Name
Violence in the Emergency Department : Tools and Strategies to Create a Violence-Free Ed
Language
English
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Medical
Format
Trade Paperback
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2009-009495
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
362.18
Synopsis
This book is a must for all emergency departments and a valuable resource for anyone scheduled to work there. It covers the history and evolution of violence in emergency departments and offers excellent exhibits for quick reference..." -- Doody's Violence in the emergency department (ED) is a critical, even life-threatening problem facing ED nurses and physicians daily. Emergency room personnel have repeatedly reported being threatened, harassed, and seriously injured by hostile patients, including psychiatrically ill patients, substance abusers, and criminals, as well as by patients' families and friends. During this nursing shortage, it is imperative that hospital administrators take the necessary measures to create a violence-free emergency room. This book educates health care professionals and hospital administrators about all aspects of ED violence. The author provides all the essential tools and strategies for preventing violence before it starts, and managing it if it occurs. In this book, Allen provides practical guidelines for assessing the potential risk of violence in the ED and implementing a violence defense strategy and program. Key topics discussed: How to assess the potential risk of violence in individual patients How to identify the types of patients that are most likely to be violent in the ED and why they are violent How to plan and implement a violence defense program by increasing security, charging penalties and fines, announcing hospital-wide alerts, and more How to improve communication strategies with both colleagues and violent patients in the ED How to increase awareness of the the significant problem of lateral violence among healthcare personnel Violence in the Emergency Department will not only help safeguard physicians and nurses from injury, it will serve as one more step toward healing the critical nursing shortage, increasing job satisfaction, and improving patient care., Guides healthcare professionals, particularly ED 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. This title provides authoritative guidance, assessment tools, and a direction for creating a violence-free ED Environment., With this book, Allen educates healthcare professionals, particularly ED 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. This book provides a historical, theoretical backdrop for why violence has emerged in the ED, including discussions on socio-political changes and 9/11. It includes a section discussing how to assess risks of violence in the ED. It presents guides on communication strategies with violence patients and how to implement a violence defense plan.
LC Classification Number
R727.2.A45 2009
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