Becker's Healthcare August 23, 2023
Addressing workplace violence against nurses and other healthcare workers requires a multi-pronged approach, and urgent action is needed from multiple stakeholders, seven nursing leaders wrote in an Aug. 23 Health Affairs report.
In the last few years, reports — anecdotal and data-based — of violence in the healthcare setting have become disturbingly common. Last fall, Press Ganey released survey findings showing an average of two nurses are assaulted every hour, which translates to about 57 assaults per day and 5,217 per quarter.
“We write today, as psychiatric mental health nurses and workplace violence and nursing workforce researchers to express our alarm,” the nurse leaders wrote. “Our nurse colleagues aren’t safe at the bedside. The American Psychiatric Nurses Association...
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