This article focuses on the workplace violence and corporate policy for health care settings. The overarching reality in the health care workplace is that many employers now find themselves dealing with workplace violence, including assault; property damage; racially, ethnically, or religiously ...
Overview: How safe is your healthcare facility from workplace violence? 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 ...
Mitigating Workplace Violence For more than 20 years, HSS has offered the industry’s preeminent risk mitigation program designed specifically for the healthcare environment–a comprehensive aggression management training program for anyone who might confront the hazards of human conflict. From staff, to...
Policymakers should incorporate suitable strategies into Bangladesh’s national health policy to combat violence in healthcare settings.Introduction Workplace violence (WPV) against health workers (HWs) is described as aggression when staff members are abused, threatened, or attacked in circumstances ...
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 ...
Incidents of workplace violence have been of significant concern to health care employers and the public at large. Many employers now find themselves confronted with sentinel events in the workplace, such as assault; property damage; racially, ethnically, or religiously motivated violence; sexual assa...
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 ...
AVADE® Training is designed toeducate, prevent,andmitigatethe risk of violence to individuals in the workplace. Healthcare Agencies Healthcare workplace incidents may be unavoidable, but becoming a victim doesn’t have to be! Through comprehensive awareness training, healthcare staff can become pr...
Steps to prevent and reduce workplace violence for healthcare workersThe occurrence of workplace violence for healthcare workers is nearly 4 times higher than other industries. In fact, according to a survey conducted by the American Nurses Association, nurses are particularly vulnerable to workplace...
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, violence against clinicians was a pressing concern for the healthcare industry – with violence about four times more prevalent in healthcare than in any other industry. The pandemic has added new stressors and exacerbated those already present, leading to an ...