Patricia B. Nikki Allen, MBA, BS, RN, has spent her entire career in diverse areas of health care management. She has created a violence prevention plan including violence prevention tools to help the multiple Emergency Departments (EDs) with which she has been involved. Since then, Ms. Allen has become increasingly interested in addressing the explosive but underreported incidence of violence occurring in Emergency Departments across the United States. She has been a regular invited speaker about violence in the Emergency Department at the Leadership Conference of the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA). She is passionate about continuing her work in developing strategies to deal with violent individuals, to help protect ED patients, and to help physicians, nurses, and ED staff protect themselves from harm.
Patricia "Nikki" Allen is now available for consulting & guest speaking!Click here to contact Patricia for consultation services including: ED POLICIES - purchase 20 additional ED Violence-related policiesED/Hospital RISK ANALYSISPHYSICIAN and/or STAFF EDUCATIONWAITING ROOM ANALYSIS/Solution DevelopmentED VIOLENCE PREVENTION PLANNINGSPEAKING ENGAGEMENTED RESOURCES: Emergency Nurses Association American College of Emergency Physicians
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Now Available!Patricia Allen's NEW BOOK, "Violence in the Emergency Department: Tools & Strategies to Create a Violence-Free ED"Violence in the emergency department (ED) is a critical, even life-threatening problem facing ED nurses and physicians daily. ED personnel have repeatedly reported being threatened, harassed, and seriously injured by hostile patients, including psychiatrically ill patients, substance abusers, and criminals, as well as by patients' families and friends. During this nursing shortage, it is imperative that hospital administrators take the necessary measures to create a violence-free ED. This book educates health care professionals and hospital administrators about all aspects of ED violence. The author provides all the essential tools and strategies for preventing violence before it starts, and managing it if it occurs. In this book, Allen provides practical guidelines for assessing the potential risk of violence in the ED and implementing a violence defense strategy and program. Key topics discussed:
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