Resident Aggression Toward Staff at a Center for the Developmentally Disabled

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• Personal Author:
  Galloway, Ellen ; Niemeier, Maureen T. ; West, Christine A.
• Description:
  Few studies have examined factors contributing to nonfatal assaults to staff working in residential care facilities. The authors evaluated resident assaults toward direct care/nursing staff at an Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Mental Retardation (ICF/MR), which included observations of work areas, employee interviews, calculation of injury and assault rates for 2004 to 2007 from Occupational Safety and Health Administration Logs, and review of state ICF/MR guidelines. Most staff interviewed reported having been injured during physical restraint of a resident and the average rate of injury from assault at the center evaluated was higher than the average national rates for the health care and social assistance sector for the same time period. The center lacked policies for a safe workplace. The authors recommended review and maintenance of workplace violence prevention policies and developing a post-incident response and evaluation program to assist staff in coping with the consequences of assault and/or occupational injury. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Health-care Health-care-facilities Health-care-personnel Injuries Injury-prevention Nurses Nursing Warning-devices Warning-signals Warning-systems Work-practices Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  2165-0799
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  19-26
• Volume:
  62
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043664
• Citation:
  Workplace Health Saf 2014 Jan; 62(1):19-26
• Email:
  cawest@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b387c2454745d078dbd9a0fb77a39e655cced4b8bf11304dcb71e45a000a3cbe14e97cd97a6072442c9d221d4f799b40f757d4776e06f365c638c03e3fafa25d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195500/cdc_195500_DS1.pdf
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