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Stop the escalation before it begins by using the pediatric Behavior Response Team protocol
Author(s) -
AdkinsBley Karen,
Shaw Barbara K.,
Smith Josh,
McMyler Eileen
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of healthcare risk management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.221
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2040-0861
pISSN - 1074-4797
DOI - 10.1002/jhrm.21082
Subject(s) - debriefing , psychological intervention , rapid response team , protocol (science) , intervention (counseling) , coping (psychology) , health care , medicine , nursing , medical emergency , psychology , medical education , psychiatry , alternative medicine , pathology , economics , economic growth
In today's world, clinicians need to be prepared to care for challenging patients and families that are struggling with the stress of illness and hospitalization and have inadequate coping skills. The University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) has developed a protocol identifying a team with representatives from psychiatry, security, and risk management to provide a rapid response in situations that historically have resulted in, at worst, sentinel/adverse events and at best, service disasters. The pediatric BRT protocol formalizes the purpose of the team, how staff should access them, and the expectation for involved staff to debrief about the interventions at identified times. It has proven to be an effective intervention and allows clinicians to provide needed care to the patients.