Check Your Understanding
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
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