Resident Aggression Toward Staff at a Center for the Developmentally Disabled

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• Alternative Title:
  Workplace Health Saf
• Personal Author:
  West, Christine A. ; Galloway, Ellen ; Niemeier, Maureen T.
• 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 ICP/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 and developing a post-incident response and evaluation program to assist staff in coping with the consequences of assault and/or occupational injury.
• Subjects:
  Aggression Developmental Disabilities Humans Nursing Staff Safety Management Workplace Violence Wounds And Injuries
• Source:
  Workplace Health Saf. 62(1):19-26.
• Pubmed ID:
  24571051
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4557700
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Name as Subject:
  United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. ; United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Volume:
  62
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043664
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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  urn:sha-512:2efb15ffee2a16deabf8d0b26b7ebe20d081f9564ffa5d1234d4e5ff03a017e03165a8567a200418afef29201ef551e5e06579deab2aae2ad6958abdd6802b6c
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