Workplace violence is a threatening worldwide public health problem. Healthcare workers have under particular risk of workplace violence, and they are being exposed to violence 4-16 times more than other service workers. The frequency of violence in the health sector in the world has indicated ...
Healthcare workers suffer from a tolerance of workplace violence and the perception that their profession implies the acceptance of that violence. As a result, people who experience violence on a day-to-day basis become habituated to it as a part of the human condition. Violence can be ...
U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) recently introduced The Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, requiring employers to write and implement workplace violence prevention plans to prevent and protect employees from violent ...
The studies identified seven categories of consequences of Workplace violence workplace violence: (1) physical, (2) psychological, (3) emotional, (4) work functioning, (5) relationship with Healthcare workers patients/quality of care, (6) social/general, and (7) financial. Psychological ...
Workplace violence against healthcare workers can be significantly reduced with a comprehensive violence prevention program. This webinar will outline common risk factors for violence, the basics elements of a violence prevention program and strategies for responding to violent events when they occur. ...
The effects of Burnout in healthcare workers (HCW) are experienced by the worker, other staff, the institution and patients under their care on a daily basis. Workplace violence (WPV) has a spectrum of forms. In more extreme forms it generally is low frequency but has high impact when it...
Workplace violence is an underreported problem, and there are few studies on workplace external violence (WEV) in healthcare workers. The aim objective of this study is to estimate prevalence of the WEV among healthcare workers and to characterize it. METHODS. Cross-sectional study among ...
Findings are based on emotional labor constructs describing why and how workers use emotion management strategies to smooth communication and relationships with clients/patients. According to our participants, HPs perform emotional labor to de-escalate interactions, prevent WPV, and to develop relationships...
Workplace violence and occupational stress in healthcare workers: a chicken-and-egg situation - results of a six-year follow-up study. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. 2014;46(5):366-376.Magnavita N.Workplace violence and occupational stress in healthcare workers:a chicken-and-egg situation-...
Workplace violence occurs in every industry and field; however it is most prevalent in the healthcare environment. Healthcare workers face many obstacles in regards to violence. They are tasked with dealing with difficult patients, who are often at their lowest point. Healthcare staff must be ab...