Implementation of a Behavioral Emergency Response Team in the Emergency Department

Emergency nurses, physicians, and patients experience occurrences of workplace violence. Having a team to respond to escalating behavioral events provides a consistent approach to reducing occurrences of workplace violence and increasing safety. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to design, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of a behavioral emergency response team in an emergency department to reduce occurrences of workplace violence and increase the perception of safety.
Source: Journal of Emergency Nursing: JEN - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Practice Improvement Source Type: research