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Low Wage, High Risk Pilot Site Materials
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Overview
Healthcare is the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy, employing over 18 million workers. Women are nearly 80 percent of the health care work force. Hospitals and other health care facilities employ doctors and nurses as well as maintenance, security, patient transport, food service, and technicians. The nature of the health care industry leaves workers vulnerable to high rates of workplace violence and harassment from patients, visitors, co-workers and supervisors. Sexual harassment is a major challenge facing health care organizations. And while health care professionals may screen patients for domestic violence, they can often overlook the signs in their own coworkers.
What Can I Do?
Download the resources in this toolkit as one step toward creating a program for healthcare and hospital industry workers. This model curriculum, slides, awareness raising documents, and handouts are a good starting point for adapting the products to your specific workplace. Note: there are resources focused on supervisors and on staff.
Resources
Education & Trainings
Model Hospital and Healthcare Curriculum: Supervisors
The following is an in-person and interactive training curriculum guide for trainers who will train hospital supervisors and managers – anyone in a leadership or supervisory role in all departments – and not exclusive to nurses and doctors. This training was created specifically for a hospital setting, with relatable scenarios that may happen for hospital staff.
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Model Hospital and Healthcare Curriculum: Staff
This is an in-person and interactive training curriculum guide for trainers of all hospital staff, including staff that work in the cafeteria, transport, etc. This training was created specifically for a hospital-setting, with relatable scenarios that may happen for hospital staff. This training should ideally occur after or concurrently with the supervisor-level trainings.
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Model Hospital and Healthcare Awareness
These resources (in English and Spanish) can be used to create awareness within the healthcare and hospital industry.
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Model Hospital and Healthcare Handouts: Supervisors
This resource provides all the handouts needed to accompany the model healthcare and hospital industry curriculum for supervisors.
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