HEALTHCARE INCIDENTS: continued
December 10, 2014 |Oklahoma | Hospital Patient Attacks 3 Okla. Hospital Employees With Knife An ER patient at Deaconess Hospital attacked two nurses and a security officer with a knife, severely injuring the officer.
December 10, 2014 | British Columbia | Hospital Psychiatric Patient Violently Assaults Doctor On Dec. 5, a psychiatric patient was taken into custody after he attacked a doctor, breaking the man‘s jaw and knocking him unconscious.
THREAT MANAGEMENT INSIGHTS
. . . lessons learned from 25 years of managing workplace violence By Bruce T. Blythe, Crisis Management International
This regular feature article is provided to share common and uncommon learnings of Bruce T. Blythe (former U.S. Marines Corps Police Officer, Psychologist, owner of six crisis-related companies - U.S. and international - and Threat Consultant since 1988). The intent is to provide take-and-use guidelines that will help managers and practitioners be better at their craft. Hopefully, it will also serve as a forum to compile best-practices from the field. If these articles stimulate take-and-use content that you would like to suggest, please provide your ideas to
bblythe@cmiatl.com.
Defensible Documentation of Threat Cases
If a serious act of work-related violence occurs, the physical documentation of any involvement by the employer will be quickly requested by various stakeholders. OSHA will require all related documentation if someone is killed. The employer‘s legal counsel and management team will want all documentation compiled. The ubiquitous plaintiff attorneys that inevitably show up will demand that all documentation be produced through the court. Media will seek out any documentation that is reportable. Most of these stakeholders will not be your friend.
While it isn‘t completely true, the adage that ―you are only as good as your documentation‖ certainly applies in the aftermath of a serious workplace violence incident.
A Threat Case Gone Bad
Since beginning threat management consulting in 1988, Crisis Management International (CMI) has been sued only one time following an act of violence. Long story short, an employee of a Fortune company made a threat to kill if he was fired. It was quickly determined that he was psychotically delusional, e.g., aliens controlling his mind, FBI followed his every move with microphones, and his supervisor was allegedly spying in his bedroom window at night. Paranoid, psychotic, threat to kill – you get the picture.
The intervention was determined between our threat of violence consultant (TOVC) and company management. It was decided that the company would leverage him into treatment - with a hand-picked, local psychiatrist - by threatening job dismissal if he didn‘t comply and cooperate. The threatening employee agreed to go. After being stabilized, the company planned to fire him, but he would continue post-termination treatment with the psychiatrist to monitor and help him land on his feet.
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Smart Drugs at Work – Legal Highs or Just Strong Coffee? - Continued from page 8 Employers, of course, want more from their people. Greater productivity, more flexibility, for staff to be more entrepreneurial and self-reliant. That‘s the reality of working in competitive markets. And much of the time, it‘s fair to say employees want the same, to perform better, improve themselves and increase the rewards involved.
In this environment of growing expectations and stiffer performance targets, it‘s perhaps unsurprising that smart drugs that have the potential to help people work harder for longer, improve memory and motivation are coming under greater scrutiny by researchers as part of the future of work.
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