Category: Workplace Violence

Training to develop CNAs and paraprofessionals for healthcare organizations specifically in those states that require CNA courses meet time restrictions
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Workforce Compliance for Post-Acute organizations
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This course presents information on the threat that terror organizations may use biological agents to kill people and cause chaos.  Biological warfare is regulated and denounced by world governments.  Terrorists are increasingly likely to use biological agents for the fear it creates in others.  Companies, families, and individuals can prepare by learning about bioterrorism, preparing for attacks, and learning how to mitigate the effects of an attack.  This course gives learners practical information they can apply at work and at home.
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Repeated and unwanted actions by an individual or group intended to intimidate, harass, degrade, or offend one or more persons is bullying. In organizations, bullying has a negative impact on the emotional health and well-being of employees and affects the performance of the entire organization. Bullying has become a serious and growing problem affecting a significant proportion of healthcare professionals compared to other industries. Therefore, it is important for administrators, supervisors, and rank-and-file employees to understand the factors that contribute to the development of bullying, and to take actions to prevent it. This course discusses bullying in healthcare organizations, along with strategies to help workers recognize and prevent bullying behavior.
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It is important for nursing professionals to recognize different population needs. When working with older adults and individuals with chronic illness, healthcare professionals should approach treatment in a way that addresses the unique needs of these populations. This course discusses the specific needs of elderly and chronically ill patients in a variety of settings, including what services are needed in general as well as the specific treatment needs for patients in these populations.
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Patient care often goes beyond general medical support. When a patient becomes emotionally upset, displaying aggressive physical behavior, it is not only disruptive but can be harmful to healthcare workers, family members, and other patients and interfere with necessary medical care. Aggressive physical behavior occurs in 30% to 50% of those people who suffer from dementia, and aggressive behaviors might include punching, kicking, biting, grabbing, pushing, throwing objects, or spitting. Healthcare providers working in retirement homes, eldercare facilities, and home care agencies often have to care for patients that exhibit aggressive behaviors. Understanding the causes behind these behaviors, how to identify triggers that cause the behaviors, and knowing how to interact effectively with an aggressive patient will increase safety for all around and improve overall care.
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Cuando un paciente se enoja, hace demandas, grita, usa lenguaje obsceno o amenaza a otros, demostrando un comportamiento físico agresivo. Estos comportamientos son disruptivos y pueden ser perjudiciales para los trabajadores de la salud, los miembros de la familia y otros pacientes. Del 30% al 50% de las personas que tienen demencia, presentan un comportamiento físico agresivo, y los comportamientos agresivos pueden incluir golpear, patear, morder, agarrar, empujar, arrojar objetos, o escupir. Es posible que los proveedores de atención médica que trabajan en hogares de retiro, centros de atención de ancianos y agencias de atención domiciliaria tengan que atender a pacientes que muestren conductas agresivas. Este curso ayudará a identificar las causas detrás de estos comportamientos, los desencadenantes que causan los comportamientos y reconocer, la forma de interactuar con el paciente, para mantener seguros tanto al paciente como a quienes lo rodean.
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Patient care often goes beyond general medical support. When a patient becomes emotionally upset, displaying aggressive physical behavior, it is not only disruptive but can be harmful to healthcare workers, family members, and other patients and interfere with necessary medical care. Aggressive physical behavior occurs in 30% to 50% of those people who suffer from dementia, and aggressive behaviors might include punching, kicking, biting, grabbing, pushing, throwing objects, or spitting. Healthcare providers working in retirement homes, eldercare facilities, and home care agencies often have to care for patients that exhibit aggressive behaviors. Understanding the causes behind these behaviors, how to identify triggers that cause the behaviors, and knowing how to interact effectively with an aggressive patient will increase safety for all around and improve overall care.
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This course presents key information on workplace violence; covering policies, awareness, prevention, response, and preparedness. The goal here is to give information that will help employees be aware and knowledgeable of workplace violence, in order to promote safe workplace practices.
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Todos hemos visto titulares como estos: ・Disparo masivo en San Bernardino, sospecha de terrorismo ・27 muertos por disparos en la escuela primaria ・Tirador causa alboroto en el cine Los incidentes de tiradores activos no son algo nuevo; En los últimos 50 años, se han producido 125 de estos incidentes en los Estados Unidos donde cuatro o más personas fueron asesinadas por uno o dos hombres armados. La buena noticia es que tú y tu lugar de trabajo pueden tomar medidas para mitigar un incidente de tirador activo, en caso de que se produzca al estar preparados para ello. Este curso proporciona orientación sobre cómo responder, prepararse y hacer un seguimiento de un incidente de tirador activo que se produce en el lugar de trabajo o en cualquier lugar público. Esperamos que nunca suceda, y las probabilidades de estar involucrado en una situación de tirador activo son extremadamente bajas, pero si ocurre un incidente de tirador activo, ¡las posibilidades de supervivencia aumentan cuando estás preparado para actuar!
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In 2016, the World Health Organization declared Zika virus outbreak in Latin America and other areas a public health emergency of international concern, because Zika virus can cause birth defects and neurological problems. Since then, Zika virus has been a topic of concern in the news media. Although a sensational topic, the reality is that Zika is a mosquito-borne virus that causes no illness in some people, and mild to moderate illness in others, lasting about a week; the vast majority of those infected with Zika virus do not become seriously ill. However, Zika virus has been shown to cause serious birth defects in children born to infected mothers. It also has been linked to the neurological disorder Guillain-Barré Syndrome in some people. This course discusses the discovery, transmission, symptoms, diagnoses, treatment, risks, and prevention of Zika virus.
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