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Over the last 20 years, there has a great increase in legal and regulatory scrutiny of the use of restrictive procedures such as physical holding, mechanical restraint, and seclusion. If not used carefully, with proper staff training, these interventions can be used abusively.
A recent report by the General Accounting Office highlighted many cases of abusive use of restraint and seclusion, sometimes resulting in death. While this report focuses on treatment of children, there are similar risks in adult treatment programs as well.
It's critical that any agency that provides services to individuals who present with potentially dangerous behavior take steps to ensure that they've taken appropriate steps regarding restraint reduction.
How QBS Can Help
- Safety-Care Behavioral Safety Training: this state of the art behavioral safety course provides your staff with the tools to prevent and contain disruptive or dangerous behavior without the use of intrusive interventions such as restraint. If such procedures do, as a last resort, become necessary, staff learn safe, humane, and brief intervention procedures that keep the person being held in a comfortable, natural position that places no pressure on the torso.
- Advanced Training Modules: beyond the core Safety-Care curriculum, advanced modules can be added to customize the course to your specific needs and provide staff with additional tools. These include Therapeutic Relationships, Improving Cooperation, and Working With Individuals Affected By Language Impairments. Management proceses and staff coaching can be developed via the Restraint Prevention and Safety-Care for Supervisors modules.
- Quality Improvement: One critical component of restraint prevention is the development of an effective Quality Improvement process that includes effective collection, aggregation, and analysis of incident data. QBS offers an innovative, web-based incident tracking system via Quality Tracking Solutions.
- Customized Training: QBS can provide customized seminars and training for administrators, managers, clinicians, supervisors, and direct care staff targeted to critical components of restraint prevention. This information can be delivered on-site or by seminar via the web.
- Program Consultation: QBS provides program consultation by expert clinical and management staff on best practice procedures for restraint prevention.
- Case Consultation: Because, in many organizations with excessive rates of restraint, most restraint incidents involve just a few highly problematic individuals, QBS case consultation can provide expert assistance in managing your most difficult cases.
Call us today at (866) 429-9211 to discuss how QBS can assist you in preventing restraint, managing liability, improving safety, and creating a positive, humane environment. Or fill out our easy contact form. |
