Comment on “Implementation of a Behavioral Emergency Response Team in the Emergency Department” J EmergNurs 2023;49:395-402

I t was with great interest that we read “Implementation of a Behavioral Response Team in the Emergency Department by Angela Bruccoli.1 The author reports on an excellent reduction in workplace violence incidents following the implementation of a behavioral emergency response team (BERT). While many look at the number of incidents of wor kplace violence pre- and post-team implementation, we sought to investigate a frequently overlooked importance of the program, the cost savings. In 2021, we established a hospital-wide multi-disciplinary BERT response.
Source: Journal of Emergency Nursing: JEN - Category: Nursing Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research