Journal of healthcare protection management : publication of the International Association for Hospital Security最新文献

Healthcare security leaders who serve in an industry built on traditional and static protection and response protocols must become more agile and adaptive in planning and responding to evolving threat and risk profiles, the author states. In this article, he tells how to use operational excellence to continuously improve performance.

This article is a condensed version of a document/position paper written by the authors for ODS Security Solutions on "Defensive Weapons and Equipment in the Healthcare Environment." For the complete paper, which also includes a review of alternative weapons and equipment and other equipment carried by security officers go to: http://ods-security.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Defensive-Weapons _Digital-2.pdf?utm_source=Defensive+Weapons&utm_campaign=spring+sentinel&utm_medium=email.

When a hospital suffers a serious loss or act of violence, the blame frequently centers on the facility's Security Department, but, as the author, a longtime security consultant, points out, there's plenty of blame to go around--including Administration at all levels, and employees, both clinical and non clinical. In this article, he presents the many reasons why security can fail and what should be done to prevent such failure.

Narcan, the nasal-spray form of naloxone, has been approved by the FDA as an easy-to-use version of a drug for saving lives of people who have overdosed on opioids--heroin or prescription painkillers. Communities across the US have been equipping first responders and police with the spray. Now, as the increase in overdose deaths has spread to hospitals, those facilities will have to decide whether their police/security officers should be equipped with. naloxone and trained in its use. In this article, the authors relate their health system's decision, how it was reached, and how it has been implemented.

In this article some of the concepts that undergird the Do It Yourself Bio or the "DIY Bio" movement will be explored; the challenges of citizen science will be considered; some of the public policy concerns linked to Do it Yourself Bio will be sketched; and some actionable recommendations made, especially for healthcare institutions.

In this article, the authors maintain that if properly used by trained security officers Taiser CEWs result in significant reductions in injuries and reduction in costs by type of injury. HSS's security officers have carried Taser CEW's in hospitals for more than 10 years in 40 facilities across the country producing no negative CMS finding or excessive use of force claims, they report.

Outside requests for data on current or former employees are handled in different ways by healthcare organizations and present considerable liability risks if a corporate policy for handling such risks is not in place. In this article, the authors present a strategy for responsible handling of sensitive information.

This article presents examples of different resources that can be implemented to help manage a patient in crisis. It discusses challenges and solutions in regard to the ED boarding of behavioral health patients and reviews various restraint types and definitions (violent, non-violent, forensic). It stresses the importance of teamwork between security police and clinicians.

The author, an experienced investigator and trainer, makes the case in this article for the use of body cameras by healthcare security and non-security personnel to confirm that they acted within policy, law, and regulatory guidelines during an incident. The many benefits of such cameras in enhancing training of healthcare personnel are also described.

Drug diversion by healthcare personnel poses substantial and growing risks to patients, staff, healthcare institutions and the community, the author reports. It is essential that clinical, pharmacy, and security personnel work together on diversion-related issues to reduce those risks, she says. In this article she spells out the critical roles of security personnel in the investigation of suspected diversion and the response to confirmed diversion.