Workplace violence prevention: improving front-line health-care worker and patient safety

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• Personal Author:
  El Ghaziri M ; Lipscomb, Jane A.
• Description:
  There is perhaps no workplace hazard for which front-line health-care workers and patient safety are more closely linked than workplace violence. When workplace violence occurs, there are direct and indirect consequences for both staff and patients, including compromised patient care. The purpose of this article is to review risk factors for and interventions to reduce front-line health-care worker risk of injury, as well as overall strategies to improve worker and patient safety through comprehensive and participatory workplace violence-prevention programs. Numerous studies have documented risk factors and preventive factors for violence in the health-care setting. Considerably fewer have evaluated interventions designed to reduce these risks and subsequent injury. Front-line health-care workers should actively participate in developing and implementing programs to reduce the risk of injury to staff and patients. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Violence Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Workplace Violence Front-line Health-care Workers Health Care Personnel Health Care Workers Injury Prevention Intervention Intervention Effectiveness Medical Personnel Occupational Health Violence-prevention Work-environment Workers Workplace Violence

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• ISSN:
  0886-6708
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  297-313
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047918
• Citation:
  New Solut 2013 Jan; 23(2):297-313
• Contact Point Address:
  Jane A. Lipscomb, University of Maryland School of Nursing Suite 655C 655 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
• Email:
  lipscomb@son.umaryland.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Performing Organization:
  University of Maryland, Baltimore
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20060901
• Source Full Name:
  New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
• End Date:
  20120831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f4da9d7bf98feb507a0176bd7e63a70a5b98c16d7985f83fee3248fc018cadeb82b03bd0c3cb480e5638c5fad01b0e82c2ddb99aa46e95597991e9a025f52d46
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202856/cdc_202856_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 114.30 KB ]