Improving Employee Safety Through a Comprehensive Patient Behavioral Program
Amanda Laprime,
Rebecca Kanaley,
Amy Keller
et al.
Abstract:BACKGROUND:
Health care workers in the United States are facing increasing rates of exposure to aggressive behavior, resulting in an increase in employee injuries related specifically to patient behavioral events. By leveraging interprofessional collaboration and system-level innovation, we aimed to reduce the rate of employee injuries related to patient behavioral events at a children’s hospital by 50% over a 3-year period.
METHODS:
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