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January 5th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
One thing very which we found out on our behavioral health unit is that it is extremely important to know the medical history of patients along with the psychiatric/psychological history. I formed a Behavioral Management Performance Improvement committe to dicuss what we can do differrent with patients with cardiac/stroke histories, geriatric issues such as dementia and alzhiemers and patients with sexual assault histories. Knowing these histories becomes very important when dealing with aggitation and anxiety without reaching the point where staff are doing take downs and restraints risking a possible cardiac/respiratory arrest or psychological trauma. This of course requires alot of verbal interventions and staff that are also advocates for those they are caring for.
March 5th, 2010 at 1:01 am
Sometimes even if the staff and all involved are aware of patient/clients,history take downs and restraints maybe the only way to handle certain situations. If the proper agencies that are placing these patients/clients were checking that all staff involved were properly trained in take downs and restraining. The State Department of Health should be offering this training to licensed facilities for free or a very minimal cost.Who does offer this training in the Phoenix area if you were to try to find someone where would you look? I just goggled restraint training in the Phoenix area and came up with virtually nothing,but it did lead me to this site.It makes me wonder if there even is anyone certified in this area to train people in take downs and restraining.