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Are you an administrator or supervisor concerned
about workplace violence touching your in-home nurses or other medical
professionals? I can certainly understand why you would be.

Contrary
to media and news reports, workplace violence attacks do not always
involve one-on-one employee violence – where an aggressive employee is
attacking a co-worker or manager.

Also, the belief that an attack
must occur on company grounds for it to be considered workplace
violence is another unfortunate misconception that is putting many
employees at-risk!

Put these 2 false-beliefs together and we find
that there is a group of workers who, not only go without the necessary
training to be protected against violence on the job, but…

…they aren’t even counted on in the statistics of many reports for workplace violence at all!

The
reality is that, in today’s world, many employees have a workplace
outside of their company’s walls. They have no set office, flexible
hours, and work in a variety of conditions and environments – all in
the same day!

And, they are attacked, beaten, raped, robbed, and even murdered by the very people they are there to help!

I’m talking about in-home nurses and other medical care-givers.

In
fact, visiting nurses, paramedics and ambulance personnel, and in-home
caregivers are among those employees who most-often encounter violence
on the job! And, if you can see how these professionals are not always
attacked by the criminal assailant, but very often by normal patients
who are reacting to pain, grief, the effects of drugs and alcohol, and
even dementia and other psychological disorders, and you quickly see
that they have a very different problem than the average employee
working in a closed environment.

In fact, the medical profession
ranks third, among all non-law enforcement, security, and military
occupations for the shear number of attacks that occur every year!
Based on these statistics, it is vitally important that your company
get the type of self defense training that will protect the in-home
medical professional from falling victim and suffering from a workplace
violence attack!

According to workers and professionals in the
medical field, assaults occurring in the in-home care environment are
very different in many ways from even the same attacks that occur
within a hospital setting.

Some of the concerns and differences
that your company’s workplace violence training program should address
for this group of employees include:

The fact that your worker is usually alone with their assailant – and sometimes other family members!The client is often confused or agitated by other events unknown to the caregiverThe neighborhood in which your professional may be required to
operate may pose dangers even if the threat does not come from the
clientAn adverse reaction to newly prescribed medications may not yet be documented…and even a client’s prejudices or sensitivities to gender, race,
age, or any other personality factor may be enough to trigger a
negative reaction and spur violence!

It’s important
to remember that, especially in these difficult times, violence in the
workplace is not just something that occurs “now and again.” Workplace
violence is an everyday problem.

With 17 to 20 employees
being murdered every week on the job, and another 1,500 people a week
being beaten, raped, robbed, or otherwise assaulted, the likelihood of
one of your medical professionals being attacked on the job is not a
possibility – it’s a given!

Regardless of the “workplace,” whether it be a hospital, clinic, ambulance, office, or even a customer’s home…

…employees
- including in-home medical caregivers – should be trained in at least
basic attack avoidance, assault evasion, escape, and self defense
strategies which would arm them with the tools to de-escalate, escape
from, or defend against an attack!

If you’re serious about
getting professional, liability-conscious, self defense training
designed specifically for medical professionals, then I want to help.
First, I recommend that you begin by reading the new report called,
“Attack-Proof Your Facility!” It has a complete section dedicated to
the medical profession and is available free here:

Workplace Violence Training