Chief Healthcare Executive April 26, 2024
Researchers found healthcare workers are facing a verbal or physical incident at least once for every 40 hours worked. Joanne DeSanto Iennaco of Yale University talks about protecting staff.
Even with more attention being placed on violence in hospitals and health systems, healthcare leaders say many incidents don’t come to light.
Joanne DeSanto Iennaco, professor of nursing and psychiatry at Yale University School of Nursing and School of Medicine, says there’s a clear need for more insights into violent and aggressive encounters between patients and hospital staff.
She led a research team that examined violence in hospitals, and their study was published last month by The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
Researchers found that there were 1.17...
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