Chief Healthcare Executive April 30, 2024
As part of our ongoing series of stories looking at safety in hospitals, Tony Jace of the Crisis Prevention Institute discusses ways to help protect staff and support workers.
Too many healthcare workers don’t feel safe on the job, and don’t have confidence in their organization’s violence prevention policies.
Those are some key takeaways from the Crisis Prevention Institute’s second annual Workplace Violence Prevention Training Annual Report for health care.
About one in five workers (17%) say their staff is very or mostly unsafe, according to the report. More than half (55%) said violence prevention plans at their workplace were only somewhat effective, or simply ineffective.
Tony Jace, CEO of the Crisis Prevention Institute, tells Chief Healthcare Executive® those findings...