Conflict in a Childrens Hospital – interview with Gerard O’DeaGerard: I’m Gerard O’Dea, Director of Training here at Dynamis, and I’m going to be talking to you today about one of our recent training courses.Vanessa: What was the training course and how did you prepare for it?Gerard: We were asked to help by providing a
Your Breakaway Training Day needs to have LOTS of practice time
A Breakaway training day from Dynamis is designed to enable Public-Facing staff faced with the imminent threat of violence or a violent assault with the appropriate attitudes and tactics for personal safety. If danger can not be avoided any other way, staff should breakaway or disengage from violence and move towards safety using appropriate personal
NHS Security Officer training for a group of NHS hospitals – Feedback over 5 years.
We recently took the opportunity to review hundreds of feedback responses from a long-standing hospital security client who chose for their NHS Security Officer training in hospitals in various parts of the UK, since 2018. We have collated the feedback from individual NHS Security Officer training who worked with our trainers over the period, to
NHS Trainers Shocked by gains from Scenario Approach
Our Director of Training, Gerard O’Dea, and Professor Chris Cushion worked with a number of experienced conflict and physical intervention trainers from NHS boards around Scotland to introduce them to the SCENA Scenario-Driven Training Approach in early March 2022. The team – already competently teaching a variety of approaches to tactics including Maybo, GSA, Functional
Resolve Conflict: Beginnings and Endings in NHS Conflict Resolution
In looking at how to resolve conflict scenarios for the emergency department and the needs of the acute hospital staff teams, we made sure that staff were really successful in establishing initial contact with the people, by carefully Being Alert and Decisive – noticing things about the patient or their family, by addressing those visiting