Safety in Home-Based Care: Situational Awareness
Presented by Quinn Tyminski
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Healthcare practitioners entering community and home contexts are often unprepared to care for their own safety. In particular, unsafe situations such as violence, animal encounters, and substance use are often under-discussed, and practitioners are rarely trained on handling these situations. Thus in this course, practitioners will learn strategies for being more cognizant of their safety, address safety in a variety of situations, and consider how their own emotions and mental well-being impact their overall safety. An interview with a law enforcement office will provide additional information on safety that can be applied to healthcare practice.
Learning Objectives
- Identify threats to personal safety within the home-based environment
- Highlight interventions to mitigate or limit threats to personal or psychological safety in the home-based environment
- Recognize how mental well-being and emotional health are impacted by their safety during the workday in the home-based setting
Meet your instructor
Quinn Tyminski
Dr. Quinn Tyminski currently serves as an instructor in the program in occupational therapy at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Tyminski earned her master’s degree in occupational therapy from Washington University in 2012 and her clinical doctorate of occupational therapy in 2017 from…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Basics of Safety in the Community Healthcare Environment
This chapter focuses on practical skills for safety in community settings (e.g., home, shelter, etc.). Practitioners will learn ways to check for their personal safety and handle specific unsafe situations that may arise.
2. Managing Your Emotional Well-Being
In this chapter, psychological safety will be addressed regarding experiences that impact the overall well-being of community-based healthcare practitioners. Skills for protecting and improving your psychological safety and emotional well-being in community-based practice will be addressed.
