The Benefits of Vulnerability Risk Assessment Toward Prevention of Workplace Violence
Introduction: This module was created as an introduction for Forensic Nurses to familiarize themselves with the benefits of risk assessments toward the prevention of workplace violence.
This training was personally created for the STEP-UP team by Dr. Paul Thomas Clements, PhD, RN.
Erin Wade, MD, MS
Target Audience
Advanced Practice Nurses, Physicians, Registered Nurses, Forensic Nurses
Learning Objectives
- Identify the profiles of workplace violence.
- Discuss high risk areas of workplace violence.
- Examine best practices in early identification of forensic nursing criminology profiles of workplace violence.
- Identify who is at risk of workplace violence.
- Discuss policy and procedure changes to prevent the incidents from reoccurring.
Conflicts of Interest
Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
The planners and presenters of this NCPD activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Commercial Support: No
Noncommercial Sponsor Support: No
Off-label Product Use: This NCPD activity does not include any unannounced information about the off-label use of a product for a purpose other than that for which it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Andrea L Sebastian, DNP, APRN, PNP-PC, AFN-C, SANE-P
Andrea L Sebastian, DNP, APRN, PNP-PC, AFN-C, SANE-P
Brandi M Asbill, BSN, RN
Andrea L Sebastian, DNP, APRN, PNP-PC, AFN-C, SANE-P
NCPD Credit Designation: The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis designates this live activity for 1.25 hours NCPD credits. No partial credit will be awarded. To receive full contact credits, you must watch 100% of the program, and complete and submit the evaluation at the conclusion of the episode.
The University of TN Health Science Center College of Nursing, Memphis is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Available Credit
- 1.25 ANCC
- 0.05 Attendance