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Managing Security and Safety in Healthcare Using Respect and Dignity
When differences divide us, treating each other with dignity by showing respect establishes a common ground for managing conflict.
Everything Is Okay Now - Confidence In Conflict Book Excerpt
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Everything is Okay Now. Respond, Don't React
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie,and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The security team arrived on the unit in just a few minutes, but the floor was already quiet. The call from dispatch said a nurse was being actively assaulted, so everyone...
How much danger am I in? — Confidence In Conflict Book Excerpt
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How Much Danger Am I In? Be Alert and Decisive
“Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily make the accurate prediction, and then say that it isn’t so.” -Gavin de Becker
How Campuses Can Use Training + Expectations to Aid Suicide Prevention
College campuses are crowded places. From dorms and lecture halls to gymnasiums and dining halls, college students spend those formative years shoulder-to-shoulder. Is it still possible to be lonely and isolated on a college campus? What are the signs of loneliness, if it’s something other than just being physically alone? Most importantly, why do campus workers need to know the signs of...
Personal Situational Awareness — Confidence In Conflict Book Excerpt
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Your First Class - Personal Situational Awareness 101
After an awesome summer break filled with concerts and days at the beach, it was finally Amanda's college move-in day. As her parents pulled up in front of her dorm, she was surprised at just how many people were running around like crazy trying to unload books, food, clothes,...
A Security Leader's Roadmap for Affecting Change
Many times, security leaders recognize that if we are not to deliver on our mission, something in our operation needs to change. At the same time, we will likely be confronted with challenges that stand in the way of affecting that change.
Some of the more common challenges that we face in healthcare are competition for resources, resistance by those who may not believe change is needed, or...
How to Increase Safety for Healthcare Security Professionals
Since the COVID-19 pandemic has entered our world, business as usual has changed drastically. Being security professionals in a healthcare environment, we are dealing with a variety of challenges even without the addition of COVID-19 to the equation. Emotions fueled by anxiety and escalated fear of others, coupled with the devastation and destruction of panic are the ingredients needed for chaos...
Big, Mean, Angry Biker — Confidence In Conflict Book Excerpt
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Introduction
I was passing through the Emergency Department when an angry-looking man walked in through the front door. He was a hard figure to miss. He wore a denim jacket with the sleeves torn off and emblazoned on his makeshift vest were the colors of a well-known and notoriously violent motorcycle gang. His bare arms were heavily inked with...