In this episode of Remember 2 Things Steve Whitehead shares two tips for encounters with angry patients. As you interact with an angry patient try not to match their emotion or anger. You yelling won’t help with the situation. You are rarely going to convince them they are wrong so you are better off using […]
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Post update 3/1 – another story published today about a teen being driven to a psychiatric hospital loosened his restraints and jumped from a moving ambulance. (Story at EMS1.com) Periodically I read or hear stories about patients, usually with known mental illness, that undo the cot buckles and jump from the moving ambulance. (news story […]