Kip Teitsort

Full list of Kip Teitsort results

• 4 ways to prepare EMTs for violent patients

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  If you’re attacked on the job, be mentally prepared, physically ready, press savvy, and able to justify your actions in court

• How role-playing can help EMS prepare for assaults

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  Acting out your responses to a violent encounter can help stop you from freezing up, and better prepare you for many different scenarios

• Why medics must press charges for assault

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  Regardless of the sentence, pressing charges raises awareness in the eyes of the media, police officers and the judicial system, and justice on some level is usually served

• Custody or care: What is the role of EMS?

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  Train your staff on reasonable use of force to avoid legal and moral problems

• Being assaulted is not part of the job

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  To change the safety culture within EMS, we must address the difference between a patient and an attacker