According to the Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services International Conference held in Berlin this year, 98 percent of emergency room nurses in the Unites States reported verbal harassment and 67 percent reported physical violence. While in Canada, 84 percent of the nurses in the emergency department witnessed verbal harassment once in every shift. While there are 90 percent of them claimed to experience verbal abuse at least once a week. In Australia, there are 70 percent of nurses who experience violence at least five times a week.
Emergency department are experiencing violence and it has been escalating year after year. So how are the hospitals coping and resolving this concern?
To come up with solution regarding this problem, it is important to define emergency room violence and differentiate it from other forms of violence. Emergency room violence is different since it involves patients, family, relatives and close friends. These violent acts came from feelings of frustrations, vulnerability and lack of control over health emergencies.
Violence prevention training for hospital staff is one step in reducing the incidence of violence in...
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