- Curriculum Provider:
- DT4EMS
- Course Length:
- 8 Hours
- Course Format:
- Interactive lecture and hands-on skills.
- Intended Audience:
- All levels of the in-hospital/home-health patient care setting (RN,LPN,MD,Techs,CNA)
- Materials:
- Every participant, upon successful completion of the course, will receive a Course Review CD and special online access to the student area containing review material that can be accessed 24/7.
EVE4HP is an 8-hour course covering the basic skills required by any health facility staff when facing possible, or even imminent assault.
The course content consists of:
- Before you enter the room. (Pre-Planning)
- Verbal skills to diffuse potentially violent encounters
- Entrance/exit plan
- Recognize the difference between a patient and an attacker/aggressor
- Pre-assault indicators (bystanders, body language, situational survey)
- The 6 D's (drugged, domestic, diabetic, deranged, drunk and desperate) and what to look for in each
- Legal aspects of self-defense
- Legal aspects of at-risk detainable patients
- Mental preparation (survival mindset, understanding stress and its effects)
- Violence and assualt is NOT part of the job!
- Good customer service is the easiest way to prevent violent encounters
- There is a difference between a patient, and an aggressor/attacker
