Dealing with Aggressive and Disruptive Patients and Their Family Members in Your Physician Practice - Southern Region
Speaker: Chief Medical Officer, RWJBarnabas Health Behavioral Health Network – Lina Shihabuddin, MD
Join us to learn how to utilize the RWJBarnabas Health Behavioral Health Network Services to optimize patient care:
- Learn strategies to effectively deal with aggressive and disruptive patients.
- Understand what to do (and not do) when a patient or family member is threatening, aggressive, appears in psychiatric distress, intoxicated or any other unacceptable behaviors.
- Learn how to identify an intoxicated patient or a patient with memory issues and ways to de-escalate a patient or situation
- Understand the role of the Psychiatric Emergency Screening Centers in each county and the process of how they can assist a physician practice.