Incidence and Cost of Nurse Workplace Violence Perpetrated by Hospital Patients or Patient Visitors

Journal of Emergency Nursing, 2002

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

Objectives: to analyze the repercussions of violence against nursing professionals, in the access and safety of patients in Family Health Strategy. Methods: a mixed study, with 169 nursing professionals. We used a socio-labor questionnaire, Survey Questionnaire Workplace Violence in the Health Sector, a patient safety instrument and interviews. Results: verbal aggression was related to support (p=0.048), respect (p=0.021), hours of care (p=0.047) and patient safety behaviors (p=0.033) among professionals. Suffering from bullying was related to fear of questioning when something is wrong (p=0.010) and lack of support from management (p=0.016). Victims of physical violence felt that their mistakes could be used against them. Mixed data converge and confirm that violence affects professional behavior and puts Primary Health Care attributes at risk. Conclusions: violence affects workers’ behavior, interferes with the care provided, weakens the access and safety of patients.

International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2022

Aim: To understand workplace violence and its impact on nurses through literature review. Background: Violence in mainstream society has permeated the workplace, especially the healthcare work environment. Violence against nurses from various sources and groups of people such as colleagues, clients/patients, and families/guests are on the rise. In their roles as Clinicians, nurses require a healthy work environment to achieve effective positive patient outcomes. Understanding the impact of workplace violence against nurses becomes paramount. Method: Comprehensive searches were conducted using scholar search engines to identify published articles on workplace violence affecting nurses. Articles were appraised and validated. The studies varied in design from randomized to nonrandomized, longitudinal, and cohort. Results: The literature suggests that nurses are exposed to various types of workplace violence, which can be physical, psychological, verbal abuse, and other threats. Conclus...

Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2010

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2004

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Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, 2012

OBJECTIVE: To describe the frequency of referred verbal, physical and sexual violence and factors associated with verbal violence in nursing teams' work at public hospitals. METHODS: Cross-sectional study, involving 1509 workers at three public hospitals in Rio de Janeiro City - (RJ). Bivariate analysis and logistic regression were applied. Significance was set at 5%. RESULTS: The frequencies of verbal, physical and sexual violence amounted to 982 (65.1%), 46 (3%) and 87 (5.7%), respectively. After applying multivariate analysis, higher chances of referred verbal violence were observed among women, younger professionals, with higher education levels, nurses, who were contracted and receive low levels of social support at work. CONCLUSION: Verbal violence is frequent in the hospital work environment and associated with different characteristics. A less hostile environment needs to be built for nursing workers.

British Journal of Nursing, 2008

The consequences of workplace violence (WPV) are far-reaching, and impact on the nurse, the perpetrator and the organization. However, the authors were unable to identify any research in the literature on nurses’ perceptions of the consequences of WPV in non-teaching hospital settings. This study therefore aimed to examine nurses’ perspectives of the consequences of WPV, to identify ways to reduce the impact of these incidents. A descriptive, exploratory approach was adopted to collect qualitative survey and interview data from nurses working in several areas of one West Australian non-teaching hospital in 2006. Three themes emerged from the data: nurse, perpetrator and organizational consequences. The sub-themes included nurses accepting that WPV is part of their job; physical and emotional effects; not feeling competent; avoiding patients; organizational costs of WPV; adverse effects of restraint; and disruption to patient care. Participants experienced several negative consequenc...

Workplace violence in health care is a serious issue impacting health care delivery and quality. Health care workers have been assaulted at increasing rates over the past decade with only serious incidents making a presence in the media when major incidents such as shootings occur. The more frequently endured incidents of violent assaults and harassment go unnoticed by the public. This hazard is recognized differently across the United States with disproportionate severity of regulations per state. The lack of regulatory requirements influences how health care institutions address the problem, with health care administrators taking varying actions on these incidents and with variable priority in their institutions. Following a workplace violence event, institutional policies may not encourage workers to recognize the assaults as serious and may excuse incidents as part of their job duties. Reporting methods may vary based on institution and follow up may be lacking. Post-event follo...

Industrial Health, 2007