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Workplace Violence Prevention Program to Improve Nurses' Perception of Safety in the Emergency DepartmentBrown, April Hough 01 January 2016 (has links)
The literature claims that workplace violence (WPV) in the health care setting is among the highest, with the majority of that violence taking place in the Emergency Department (ED). The significance of WPV in reference to nursing is that it leads to burnout, absenteeism, and the risk of nurses leaving their job all together. Leaving the nursing profession intensifies the present critical shortage. With the success of an evidence-based WPV prevention program (WPVPP), hospitals could improve the quality of work for nurses, which consequently will improve retention rates, as well as provide an environment that will be more conducive to patient care. In the evaluation of the ED at the practicum site, it was found that there was an absence regarding de-escalation education, hazard assessment, and incident reporting. To address those problems, the current project examined the extent to which implementing a WPVPP would provide a safer environment as perceived by the nurses who work in the ED. Ten health care professionals with experience and knowledge related to WPV were given an evaluation tool to measure the content validity of the survey instrument and WPVPP. The evaluation tool was comprised of 12 close- and open-ended questions. The information gained from the evaluation provided the necessary support to implement the WPVPP and evaluate the nurses' perception of safety in the ED. The implementation of a WPVPP would affect social change by improving the nurses' perception of safety, hence creating a healthy work environment that includes safety, respect, and trust.
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Emergency department workplace violenceJaffal, Amer January 2016 (has links)
A research report submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of
the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for
the degree of Master of Medicine in Emergency Medicine.
Johannesburg, March, 2016 / Objectives: The aim of the current research was to determine the perception and
experience of different emergency department occupational groups regarding
workplace violence in the past 12 months and to determine the effect that it had on
them in two government hospitals in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Materials and Methods: The current research was a cross sectional, retrospective
qualitative survey.
Results: Eighty-six surveys (43%) out of the distributed 200 questionnaires were
returned. Five surveys were unfilled leaving 81 surveys (40.5%) that are included in
the analysis. Psychological violence was experienced by 73 % (n=51) of the
participants while physical violence was experienced by 34.2% (n=27). Patients were
the perpetrators of 61% and 67.9% of psychological and physical violence against
staff members, respectively. Friends and family members who accompanied patients
in the emergency department accounted for 27.4% psychological violence while this
same set of people caused 17.3% of physical violence. Ninety-one percent of the
participants reported that they did not receive any training courses on how to handle
workplace violence incidents. Medical staff (doctors and nurses) were found to be at
an increased risk to psychological violence.
Conclusions: Workplace violence was commonly experienced by ED staff members.
Majority of the incidents were in the form of psychological violence; however, a
considerable percentage of the participants experienced physical violent incidents.
Most of the violent incidents experienced were perceived to be preventable by majority
of participants. This research supports the need for practical training and education of
the ED staff members, on how to prevent and deal with issues related to ED WPV. / MT2016
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