WPV against healthcare workers (HCWs) has increased during the COVID-19 epidemic. This meta-analysis determined the prevalence and risk factors of WPV. A database search was conducted across six databases in May 2022, which was updated in October 2022. WPV prevalence among HCWs was the main ...
A year-old law seems to have done little to curb a surge in violence against health care workers that began during the pandemic, despite increasing charges for assaults on nonmedical staff – such as custodial, security or administrative workers – who are ...
In this study we aimed to investigate the violence towards the emergency care providers in an urban emergency department.Methods: The study was carried out between March 1st - 10th, 2011 at Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital (Turkey). The healthcare providers were grouped as emergency ...
Violence against healthcare workers: persistent trends and appropriate responses Journal of Healthcare Protection ManagementVellani, Karim H.
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 ...
In Sweden, violence against women is recently recognized as a public health problem; we label this shift “The public health turn on violence against women”. The new framing implies increased demands on the Swedish healthcare sector and its’ ability to recognise violence and deal with it in ...
The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition Violence against health care workers has been more pronounced following Nurses are frontline workers who spend the most considerable amount of time with patients, making them both victims of lurking violence and best positioned to assess and evaluate ...
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Results: According to the research findings even 95.7% of the healthcare workers had indicated that the violence against the women is only "harmfull physical action against the women". "What is the basis of violence against the women?" had been answered by 59.5% of the same healthcare ...
Violence against healthcare workers is 12 times higher than the rest of the U.S. workforce. Overall, 75% of all workplace violence incidents that happen each year in the United States involve healthcare professionals. 25% of nurses in emergency care have experienced physical violence at work....