Violence, Job Satisfaction, and Employment Intentions Among Home Healthcare Registered Nurses

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• Personal Author:
  Canton AN ; Gershon RR ; Magda LA ; Pearson JM ; Raveis VH ; Sherman MF ; Westra LJ
• Description:
  Workplace violence, defined as violent acts directed toward workers, includes physical assault, threat of assault, and verbal abuse and is widely recognized as a threat to workers' health and safety. Healthcare workers, especially nurses, are known to be at high risk. As employees who work alone, have access to drugs, provide care to people in distress, and/or have frequent close contact with clients, they face a greater likelihood of exposure to violence. Nurses' risk has been correlated with degree of patient contact; the odds of physical violence are 7.2 and 9.0 times greater for healthcare workers with moderate and high patient contact, respectively, compared with those with little or no contact. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Delivery Of Health Care Hazardous Substances Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Mental Health Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Stress, Psychological Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Health-care-personnel Health-hazards Health-services Health-surveys Medical-care Medical-personnel Medical-services Nurses Nursing Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-health-nursing Occupational-health-services Physical-reactions Physical-stress Physiological-effects Physiological-factors Physiological-stress Psychological-effects Psychological-stress Risk-analysis Risk-factors Statistical-analysis Work-environment Work-performance Worker-health Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  0884-741X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  364-373
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035493
• Citation:
  Home Healthc Nurse 2009 Jun; 27(6):364-373
• Contact Point Address:
  Mailman School of Public Health and School of Nursing, Columbia University, NY, NY 10032
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• Performing Organization:
  Columbia University, Health Sciences
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20040901
• Source Full Name:
  Home Healthcare Nurse
• End Date:
  20080630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d46ec4de891377a2dcd91f08408b5d9554490e7821b99835a4a57589253c448b7c0b41dfe52c1fce92aeafa3975137b09f18840c213730b0f4ceb66d9f0c4406
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/187332/cdc_187332_DS1.pdf
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