| Are you an administrator or supervisor concerned | | | | According to workers and professionals in the |
| about workplace violence touching your in-home | | | | medical field, assaults occurring in the in-home |
| nurses or other medical professionals? I can | | | | care environment are very different in many |
| certainly understand why you would be. | | | | ways from even the same attacks that occur |
| Contrary to media and news reports, workplace | | | | within a hospital setting. |
| violence attacks do not always involve one-on-one | | | | Some of the concerns and differences that your |
| employee violence - where an aggressive | | | | company's workplace violence training program |
| employee is attacking a co-worker or manager. | | | | should address for this group of employees |
| Also, the belief that an attack must occur on | | | | include: |
| company grounds for it to be considered | | | | - The fact that your worker is usually alone with |
| workplace violence is another unfortunate | | | | their assailant - and sometimes other family |
| misconception that is putting many employees | | | | members! |
| at-risk! | | | | - The client is often confused or agitated by |
| Put these 2 false-beliefs together and we find | | | | other events unknown to the caregiver |
| that there is a group of workers who, not only | | | | - The neighborhood in which your professional |
| go without the necessary training to be protected | | | | may be required to operate may pose dangers |
| against violence on the job, but... | | | | even if the threat does not come from the client |
| ...they aren't even counted on in the statistics of | | | | - An adverse reaction to newly prescribed |
| many reports for workplace violence at all! | | | | medications may not yet be documented |
| The reality is that, in today's world, many | | | | - ...and even a client's prejudices or sensitivities to |
| employees have a workplace outside of their | | | | gender, race, age, or any other personality factor |
| company's walls. They have no set office, flexible | | | | may be enough to trigger a negative reaction and |
| hours, and work in a variety of conditions and | | | | spur violence! |
| environments - all in the same day! | | | | It's important to remember that, especially in |
| And, they are attacked, beaten, raped, robbed, | | | | these difficult times, violence in the workplace is |
| and even murdered by the very people they are | | | | not just something that occurs "now and again." |
| there to help! | | | | Workplace violence is an everyday problem. |
| I'm talking about in-home nurses and other | | | | With 17 to 20 employees being murdered every |
| medical care-givers. | | | | week on the job, and another 1,500 people a |
| In fact, visiting nurses, paramedics and ambulance | | | | week being beaten, raped, robbed, or otherwise |
| personnel, and in-home caregivers are among | | | | assaulted, the likelihood of one of your medical |
| those employees who most-often encounter | | | | professionals being attacked on the job is not a |
| violence on the job! And, if you can see how | | | | possibility - it's a given! |
| these professionals are not always attacked by | | | | Regardless of the "workplace," whether it be a |
| the criminal assailant, but very often by normal | | | | hospital, clinic, ambulance, office, or even a |
| patients who are reacting to pain, grief, the | | | | customer's home... |
| effects of drugs and alcohol, and even dementia | | | | ...employees - including in-home medical caregivers |
| and other psychological disorders, and you quickly | | | | - should be trained in at least basic attack |
| see that they have a very different problem than | | | | avoidance, assault evasion, escape, and self |
| the average employee working in a closed | | | | defense strategies which would arm them with |
| environment. | | | | the tools to de-escalate, escape from, or defend |
| In fact, the medical profession ranks third, among | | | | against an attack! |
| all non-law enforcement, security, and military | | | | If you're serious about getting professional, |
| occupations for the shear number of attacks that | | | | liability-conscious, self defense training designed |
| occur every year! Based on these statistics, it is | | | | specifically for medical professionals, then I want |
| vitally important that your company get the type | | | | to help. First, I recommend that you begin by |
| of self defense training that will protect the | | | | reading the new report called, "Attack-Proof Your |
| in-home medical professional from falling victim | | | | Facility! |
| and suffering from a workplace violence attack! | | | | |