Table 2 Modules, objectives, and learning hours of routine WPV management training and CRSCE

Basic Communication Skills of Nursing

To understand the concept of communication skills and its attributes

To understand different types of communication skills

To learn how to interact with patients in practice

4

–

✓

✓

Communication Skills in Mental Health Care

To identify the attribute of communication skills in mental health care

To distinguish the difference of communication skills between mental health and general nursing

To learn how to interact with psychiatric patients

4

4

✓

✓

Risk Assessment of Violence

To understand the types of WPV

To learn how to use different assessment tools

To discuss advantage and disadvantage of assessment tools

4

–

✓

✓

The Ethic and Law in Metal Health Care

To discuss the ethical issues in mental health care

To discuss how nurses to balance the ethical issues and law in mental health care

4

–

✓

✓

De-escalation

To know the concept of De-escalation

To identify the attributes of De-escalation

To discuss the key components contribute to successful de-escalation

4

–

✓

✓

Practical WPV coping skills

To learn the breakaway techniques, holding methods

To learn the control and restraint methods

4

8

✓

✓

CRSCE training

Communication

How to Build the Therapeutic Nurse-Patient Relationship

To identify the factors that influence therapeutic relationship

To identify the key components of building the therapeutic relationship with patients

To learn how to build therapeutic nurse-patient relationship using communication skills

4

4

NA

✓

The Communication Skills with Aggressive Patients

To learn the communication skills with aggressive patients

4

4

NA

✓

Response

The Early Stage Signal of WPV

To identify the early stage signal of WPV

To discuss and learn what a nurse should do when he/she has identified a patient is in WPV early stage

4

4

NA

✓

What Is Your FIRST Reaction When WPV Happens?

To recall nurses’ memories of facing violence

To share nurses’ experience of coping with violence

To refresh and discuss the appropriate method to manage WPV

4

–

NA

✓

When WPV Happens, What Should We Do?

To learn how to response WPV

To discuss the alternatives of WPV

4

2

NA

✓

What Is the Influence of WPV on You?

To discuss and share the influence of WPV on individual

4

–

NA

✓

Solution-Focused Technique

Cognitive Positive Psychology

To learn the concept of cognitive positive psychology and how to use it in clinical work

4

4

NA

✓

The Concept and Principle of Solution-Focused Technique in Nursing

To learn the concept and principle of solution-focused technique

4

–

NA

✓

The Five Stages of Psychological Intervention of Solution-Focused Technique and Its Application

To identify the five stages of psychological intervention of solution-focused technique

To learn using the five stages of psychological intervention in practice

4

2

NA

✓

Care

The History and Development of Humane Care Service

To understand the history and development of humane care service

To identify the key elements of humane care service

4

–

NA

✓

The Relationship Between Humane Care Service and WPV

To discuss the relationship between humane care service and WPV

To learn proving humane care to aggressive patients

4

4

NA

✓

The Humane Care Service in Mental Health Care

To identify the humane care service in mental health care

To discuss what nurses can do to provide the humane care service to psychiatric patients

4

4

NA

✓

Environment

The Innovation of Environment in Mental Health Care

To understand the concept of environment in mental health care

To understand the change process and development of environment in mental health care

8

4

NA

✓

Evidence Base Practice: The Relationship Between Ward Environment and WPV

To discuss how environment affects the WPV

To find out the environmental hazards of WPV through literature review

To implement achievable improvement of ward environment

8

8

NA

✓

36 h

140 h