Risk Management In Mental Health Services Page 36
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54The reader is referred to the HSE strategy for managing work related
aggression and violence within the Irish Health Service -‘Linking Safety
and Service, Together creating safer places of service’ (HSE,2008)
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The strategy employs four best practice approaches from organisational
and health disciplines including;
a contextual understanding of aggression and violence within
healthcare;
an integrated, balanced organisational response;
a public health preventative approach, and
a partnership ethos of working.
This strategy highlights a number of high priority risk reduction measures
which should be implemented at the earliest opportunity. These include
developing a response in relation to;
Risks inherent in lone working and working alone;
Risks associated with non-physical aggression and violence;
Risks associated with physical aggression and violence;
Risks associated with behavioural manifestations of medical conditions
such as cognitive impairments, systemic illnesses and substance
use/or withdrawal;
Risks associated with the provision of training in physical interventions;
Risks associated with the use of physical interventions in practice;
Risks associated with the psychological impact of aggression and
violence.
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HSE,(2008) ‘Linking Safety and Service, Together creating safer places of service. ’
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