Violence Prevention Policy Summary

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Based on the information in the needs assessment, it is recommended that the Florida State Hospital establish a violence prevention program coupled with cognitive behavior intervention for employees, as part of the training process.
Pros and Cons of the Program
Pros
The program will empower the staff and is more found focused on enhancing the employee’s skills, knowledge, and abilities, reduce the cost of employee turnover and worker’s compensation claims, increases the quality of services provided, promote long-term adequacy, opportunity for future safety enhancements, and betterment for the organization as a whole.
Cons
All violence and aggression are not predictable and cannot be eliminated. Getting the employee’s trained without increasing
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The benefit of implementing a violence prevention program be training the staff on the various factors that promote violence and aggression so that they do not display behaviors and habits that promote opportunities or display prohibited cues of acceptance for the residents to enact upon. Implementing the program would also enhance the employee’s ability to interact with the residents and create the opportunity for staff to gain a rapport with the residents to reduce occurrences of aggression and violence. Engaged employees are more productive, more willing to volunteer their extra role time to vital stakeholder-oriented corporate initiatives, and more likely to serve as effective company ambassadors to customers and other stakeholder groups as well as lower costs of turnover rates (Potoski & Callery, 2017). Cognitive-behavioral programs produce more effective effects with perceived quality of work life, enhancing psychologic resources and responses, and reducing employee complaints (Van der Klink, Blonk, Schene, & Van Dijk …show more content…
The limited rationality, then involves some considerations of cost and benefits, although the considerations may be incomplete or inaccurate (Cullen, Francis, Robert Agnew, and Pamela Wilcox, 2014). All residents that are in mental health facilities believe that they should be there and are irritated because of the different rules and restrictions that are imposition. They cannot check themselves in and out as they chose and their ability to make decisions and choices are limited and they feel that they having nothing else to lose because they feel that their rights have already been taken away. A weak therapeutic alliance during initial patient evaluation, increases the risk of a patient exhibiting physical attack or fear-inducing behavior in the first week of hospitalization (Tishler, Gordon, & Landry-Meyer, 2000). Negative perceptions increase the risks of violence and aggression. Residents may believe that the only way to get what they want or need is by force and if they cannot have what they want, then make someone pay; however, if staff are adequately training, they will be more effective at addressing