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Question 1: Organizations should do which of the following for employees after a violent incident?

Please select ONE of the following:

Advise the employee not to seek legal services Discourage the employee from filing a workers' compensation claim If the perpetrator is a patient, have the employee apologize to the patient and tend to the patient's needs Provide non-mandatory access to counselors as part of the employer's standard response procedures

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Question 2: There is no need to file a written incident report when …

Please select ONE of the following:

The incident is only a verbal threat The physical assault did not result in any injuries The assailant was a cognitively impaired Alzheimer's patient The patient appeared agitated, but did not act out physically or verbally

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Question 3: Which of these is a goal of a post-incident team analysis?

Please select ONE of the following:

To learn who was responsible for inciting the incident and establish blame To provide a forum for complaints about failures of management to prevent such incidents in the first place Crisis care and support for the injured nurse To identify and correct vulnerabilities in the present violence prevention protocols and procedures

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