ESSAY : Nursing and Workplace Violence

Overview
A new initiative has been introduced to educate nurses, health care workers, and social services workers on how to prevent workplace violence where you work. Write a 750–1,000-word article on workplace violence and prevention measures for the hospital employee newsletter.

Context
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) (2002) defines workplace violence as any physical assault, threatening behavior, or verbal abuse occurring in the workplace. Violence includes overt and covert behaviors ranging in aggressiveness from verbal harassment to murder.

Instructions
Your workplace has experienced some serious problems with workplace violence that occurred between patients and caregivers. A new initiative has been introduced to educate nurses, health care workers, and social services workers on how to prevent workplace violence. You have been asked to write an article on workplace violence and prevention measures for the hospital employee newsletter.

Directions
Write a 750–1,000-word article (3–4 pages) on workplace violence and prevention measures for the hospital employee newsletter. Address the following in your article:
• Identify the political, legal, and/or legislative factors that may contribute to violence in health care settings. Consider the types of patients that may be treated within a clinical or hospital setting.
• Compare OSHA regulations and the ANA position statement on workplace violence to organizational policies.
• Explain safety policies and protocols for preventing and responding to violence against health care workers.

Additional Requirements
Your presentation should meet the following requirements:
References: Cite a minimum of five resources, with the majority being peer-reviewed sources. Your reference list should be appropriate to the body of literature available on this topic that has been published in the past 5 years.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Nursing and Workplace Violence

Introduction

Workplace violence is one of the significant threats affecting quality healthcare delivery in many sectors. Such violence involves harassment, physical attack, threats, intimidations and verbal abuse. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) states that workplace violence includes any physical assault, inappropriate verbal attack, and other threats. This paper focuses on workplace violence in the relation to the healthcare environment and the extensive preventive measures advanced by different bodies.

Political, Legal, and/or Legislative Factors That May Contribute To Violence There are many causes of workplace violence the healthcare setting. Some of these causes are affiliated to political or legal inefficiencies which lead directly or indirectly to violence. The existing legal framework ought to define how workers should conduct themselves and how they should solve any arising problems. For example, most healthcare-related workplace violence results from poor or lack of pre-employment screening…