Workplace Violence in Health Care: Recognized but Not Regulated

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• Personal Author:
  Lipscomb, Jane A. ; McPhaul KM
• Description:
  Workplace violence is one of the most complex and dangerous occupational hazards facing nurses working in today's health care environment. This article includes critiques of the conceptual, empirical, and policy progress of the past decade, a discussion of the need for methodologically rigorous intervention effectiveness research, and a description of a joint-labor management research effort aimed at documenting a process to reduce violence in a state mental health system. The development of a typology of workplace violence has advanced our understanding of the relationship of the perpetrator of the violence to the victim and provided a foundation for conceptual frameworks linking etiology and prevention. Even though health care workers may be exposed to four types of violence in the course of their work, the overwhelming majority of threats and assaults against caregivers come from patients (Type II), justifying emphasis on this type of violence. Individual nurses and direct care providers have very little influence over the level of violence in their workplaces, but through collective action are poised to influence policies designed to protect the health care workforce. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Fatigue Health Personnel Mental Disorders Mental Health Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Workplace Violence Health-care-personnel Health Care Workers Injuries Injury-prevention Intervention Effectiveness Mental-disorders Mental-fatigue Mental-health Mental-illness Mental Health Nurses Nurse Safety Nursing Occupational-hazards Occupational Injury Occupational Safety OSHA Safety-measures Traumatic-injuries Violence Prevention Worker-health Workers Workplace-monitoring Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  1091-3734
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Massachusetts ; New York ; OSHA Region 1 ; 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:
  6
• Volume:
  9
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20029946
• Citation:
  Online J Issues Nurs 2004 Sep; 9(3):6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Intervention Effectiveness Research
• Performing Organization:
  University of Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19990930
• Source Full Name:
  Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
• End Date:
  20030929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1c7ecf3d88ca34bc89af638aa6169bb45c4901045a2cd3fd91a59f896b9c391d2a033341bcd1da74d1225721ebe453165e5670f1267a4ca18637d7b95f60e8b4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/190817/cdc_190817_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.50 MB ]