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

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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

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Conflict Resolution across Cultures

Conflict Resolution across Cultures can be tricky! In our experiences deliveringconflict management courses in the UAE, Qatar and other GCC countries, we address issues of Conflict Resolution across Cultures. For example, the Arab communication style is known for containing exaggeration (through a fear of being ignored) over-assertion (through a fear of a point’s force being

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Healthcare Communication and Language Types in Conflict Resolution

As vehicles for our training content in Healthcare Communication for one Emergency Department team,  I developed a set of common target scenarios from the information I gathered in talking with the management, the learning development team and the staff themselves. We worked through these Healthcare Communication scenarios in the training, ranging from easy scenarios, such

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Empathy in Conflict Resolution : The Paradox for NHS Teams

Empathy in Conflict Resolution is so important that we really wanted healthcare teams to have an opportunity to explore their relationship with empathic listening and communication. One of the issues we know about in the emergency department is that in order to operate functionally and to be efficient staff in an emergency department have to

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