Crisis Intervention
Although it definitely sucked to have to get up early on a Saturday, and spend most of my day in class, I really enjoyed our mandatory “Crisis Intervention Training” at the hospital today. It was specifically for all of us psychiatry interns. The class involves identifying patients/people who are “escalating” and trying to intervene before things get out of control. But it also involves dealing with the (fairly likely, unfortunately) possibility that we might be attacked by a patient at some point, and trained us to handle the situation in the least physically aggressive way possible. Although I completed this same course many years ago before becoming a psychiatric technician, and used it on a daily basis for my job, it was a great refresher, as it’s been about 7 years since I’ve needed it in an “official” arena!
