Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Englewood Hosts Training In Prevention Of Gang Violence

Nurse.com
March 23,2009

To help ensure that patients and hospital staff remain safe from gang violence, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center recently conducted a special training session with the NJHA and the New Jersey State Parole Board.

The session focused on gang-related issues specific to North Jersey and New York City, including identification of gang signs, markings, and language, and how to prevent gang violence on the street from spreading into the ED. Law enforcement officers provided a display of gang paraphernalia, including headwear, beads, photos, and other articles of clothing seized from various gangs, for hospital staff to be able to identify, and showed them how to defuse potentially violent situations.

Also go to “New Jersey Hospitals Gang Up on ED Violence” at http://include.nurse.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009302230056..

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