National Conference for Workplace Violence Prevention and Management in Healthcare Settings

Details

• Personal Author:
  Gates DM ; Gillespie GL
• Description:
  Workplace violence (WPV) is a serious and growing problem for healthcare workers. Workplace violence includes acts of incivility, bullying, verbal and physical aggression, threatening words or actions, sexual harassment, and physical assaults. Although research in the field of WPV has been growing in recent years, there has been a lack of opportunities for researchers who study WPV in the healthcare sector to meet and share findings, theories, and models. Currently researchers in this study area are few and scattered throughout the U.S. Now more than ever there was a critical need for a U.S. based conference to be held where the leaders, innovators, educators, and researchers could come together to network, build multi-disciplinary teams, and share strategies, potential solutions, educational materials, best practices, and findings related to the prevention, management, and recovery associated with WPV. This conference was the first national U.S. conference in recent history specifically focusing on WPV in healthcare settings. The conference was held over 2 days from Friday, May 11, 2012 to Sunday, May 13, 2012 at the Marriot Kingsgate Conference Center at the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center. The conference hosted four keynote sessions, seven papers sessions, and three poster sessions. Conference objectives (specific aims) were (1) discuss the current epidemiology of incivility, bullying, verbal and physical aggression, threatening words or actions, sexual harassment, and physical assaults enacted against healthcare workers, (2) evaluate intervention programs aimed at preventing and reducing the incidence and sequelae of workplace violence against healthcare workers by visitors, patients, coworkers, and intimate partners, and (3) analyze whether the questions raised during the University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center summit of 2000 have been addressed. Program evaluations from the conference attendees indicated that the conference objectives for discussing the current epidemiology and evaluating intervention programs were met. On the final day of the conference, a panel discussion and consensus building session was hosted and video recorded. Ultimately, the panel members concluded that the state of the science for workplace violence has improved in terms of violence from patients, visitors, and coworkers; however, there remains a great gap in terms of personal relationship violence, multidisciplinary populations, and the description and testing of interventions aiming to prevent, manage, and recover from the workplace violence that occurs in healthcare settings. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Violence Workplace
• Keywords:
  Health Care Personnel Health Care Workers Intervention Violence Prevention Workplace Violence
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-19
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20059022
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2022-100303
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, R13-OH-010135, 2012 Aug; :1-19
• Contact Point Address:
  Gordon Lee Gillespie, PhD, RN, University of Cincinnati College of Nursing, Assistant Professor, P.O. Box 210038, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0038
• Email:
  gordon.gillespie@uc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• NORA Priority Area:
  Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  University of Cincinnati
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20110701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20120630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:543208026fbf4eb8f876e4129d87ddc5e391ea8cc551e0928f66b4aad7c6e2cb48eda36668eab4303f421bfafc7da27dc392ae71d69d99a60f66bc6908273771
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218963/cdc_218963_DS1.pdf
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