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Ajayi, Folawewo. Raising mental health awareness to increase safety of staff in a private practice. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-xd7m-gv21

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TitleRaising mental health awareness to increase safety of staff in a private practice
NameAjayi, Folawewo (author); Heider, Gerti E (chair); Hyatt, Joyce (internal member); Rutgers University; School of Nursing - RBHS
Date Created2019
Other Date2019-10 (degree)
SubjectViolence in the workplace, Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Extent1 online resource (145 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionWorkplace violence in healthcare settings may erupt at any time either in an inpatient or outpatient setting. A doctor’s private practice is a small healthcare office setting that has largely been overlooked when it comes to workplace violence. During a behavioral crisis in such settings, help is limited. The gap identified is how to keep staff safer in private practice during a mental health crisis. The purpose of this project is to use the best practice educational program to educate staff working in a psychiatric/behavioral health private practice. The project will delineate the importance of early awareness of violence to reduce injuries to staff, and ultimately other people at this work site during such a crisis. To detect a problem with the mentally ill requires some knowledge of the disease process. The knowledge to action theoretical framework will be used to guide the development of this project. Mental Health Literacy (MHL) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)’s Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) will both be employed to develop an educational program for the staff in the selected private practice. TeamSTEPPS is an office-based patient’s safety tool. The focus is to teach how situational monitoring and awareness may improve communication and heighten crises recognition in this setting (AHRQ, 2018). Statistics will be used to describe the sample and analysis of variance to evaluate the pretest and posttest. The office staff will be assessed for knowledge, their level of confidence and stigma for mental illness. The expected results will suggest that the training program for the staff in this private practice is effective to positively improve knowledge, increase levels of confidence and decrease stigma.
NoteDNP
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-xd7m-gv21
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Nursing (RBHS) DNP Projects
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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