Violence in the Healthcare Workplace Today Today, professional nurses are on the frontlines of healthcare and, unfortunately, the war metaphor is all-too accurate in many cases. Indeed, hospitals can be dangerous places for all healthcare employees Continue Reading...
Workplace Violence Major Findings and Implications Corrective Actions and Recommendation Plan Evaluation of Effectiveness of Plan This paper is based on workplace violence, predominantly in the health care industry. Workplace violence in the toda Continue Reading...
Workplace violence in the nursing field makes it difficult if not impossible for a nurse to do their job. Whether the bullying is lateral or vertical, the results are consistently the same: decreased self-confidence, fear, and work-related stress. Al Continue Reading...
Workplace violence can be prevented by creating a workplace environment and organizational culture that prevents the problem, protects employees, and pursues strategies for change. The presence of official policies or codes of ethics in the workplace Continue Reading...
Workers who are assaulted can experience profound and long-lasting psychological trauma. If violence persists, they may seek to leave the profession, or areas of the profession where there is an especially acute need for care, such as ER work. The " Continue Reading...
Bullying in Nursing: Issues and Trends When people grow up, get out of school, and move into careers, they may feel they have left bullying behind them. Unfortunately, that is often not the case. Bullies exist all throughout life, and are often foun Continue Reading...
Workplace Violence Everyday in the United States millions of Americans leave their homes and enter the places of their employment. Captain Among these millions, most report to work unaware of the prevalence of workplace violence or fully understand Continue Reading...
Nurses and Ethics of Code Regardless of what institution or department a person is in, there would be violation of the laws in the workplace. Healthy workplaces basically contribute to the job satisfaction of all the people who are working there. Le Continue Reading...
experienced workplace violence? When I was very young and working at my first place of employment, someone who was drunk and disorderly had to be removed by the police. Fortunately, the police were able to come quickly given that I was not well-bri Continue Reading...
Violence MORE THAN A BRAWL A long-standing epidemic, which is recognized and addressed after 25 years, may be as serious as the diseases, which the healthcare industry has been zealously combating. It is called lateral violence or LV. It is hostil Continue Reading...
legislators on health care issues and nursing, specifically? To make healthcare inexpensive through tackling the fast increasing cost of healthcare Patients ought to have a better access to information about the cost and quality of services offere Continue Reading...
Introduction Three big trends impacting the workplace are 1) the effects of the #MeToo Movement and the need to implement policies to protect workers against sexual harassment, 2) the role that AI is playing in the workplace and the impact it is havi Continue Reading...
Assessment 3: Professional Accountability and Patient Safety Defining the Issue: Violence from Patients towards Nurses: In this discussion, I concern myself with ‘violence from patients towards nurses.’ It is important to note, from the Continue Reading...
Not all physical force can be characterized as violence, and not all violence is created equal. There are numerous controversies regarding definitions of violence and abuse and no clear consensus among researchers on how to characterize acts as one Continue Reading...
A surprising exclusion by the OSH happens to be a certain area of paid domestic work, which is largely dominated by female workers. Several occupational safety and health standards and exposure limits to hazardous substances are founded on male popu Continue Reading...
1.1 IntroductionHorizontal violence (HV) has been defined by many authors and despite the definitions varying, the term has been mostly described as actions, words or other behaviors which are directed at ones peers (Becher & Visovsky 2012), (Dumont, Continue Reading...
Critique of Research Studies: Quantitative Title: The Effect of Bullying on Burnout in Nurses: The Moderating Role of Psychological Detachment Abstract Horizontal violence, or workplace bullying of nurses, remains a serious problem for the nursing pr Continue Reading...
…[…… parts of this paper are missing, click here to view the entire document ]…OccupationalStressandScientificMonitoringLiteratureReview2.1IntroductionThedefinitionofthetermoccupationalstressisderivedfromthedefinitionofitstwoc Continue Reading...
Security Management at Aviation and Healthcare Sectors Security Management Essay This paper discusses the concept of aviation security management and security management at healthcare settings. In addition to that, this paper also lists down and de Continue Reading...
This collection comprises health-care and social service employees such as visiting nurses, psychiatric evaluators, and probation workers; community employees such as gas and water utility workers, phone and cable TV employees, and letter carriers; Continue Reading...
United States Nursing Professional IssuesNaomi O.There should be federal and state policies that focus on workplace violence for nurses. Such policies will ensure that nurses feel safe to attend to their patients and can be compensated when faced wit Continue Reading...
Controlling Violent Health Care Patients and Employees This is a paper discussion on the identification and control of violence amongst health care patients and employees. It has 11 sources. An Introduction to Violence Violence has become a commo Continue Reading...
COURSE DEVELOPMENTCommunity Health Nursing Course DevelopmentPart ACourse OverviewBSN nurses must be prepared to practice and function effectively in a wide range of settings. Community health is considered an integral part of the public health secto Continue Reading...
Occupational Stress and Scientific MonitoringElena Georgiou*AbstractThe aim of this project was to review evidence available on occupational stress and how it can be monitored scientifically. Closed-ended questionnaires were used to obtain data from Continue Reading...
Sexual Harassment The term sexual harassment refers to unreasonable intrusion into a person's personal space in relation to comments or actions of a sexual nature. There are laws dating back to the 1960s under the Civil Rights Act that target this i Continue Reading...
Right," Gaffney et al. (2012) examine how nurses respond to workplace bullying. The authors point out that although the consequences of workplace bullying include diminished performance and rises in problems like absenteeism and turnover, there Continue Reading...
Stress Management in the Caregiver Setting An increasing body of evidence points to the intensity of the labor involved in caring, and the impact it has on the caregiver in a healthcare setting. Whether lay or professional, it seems that the potenti Continue Reading...
Restraining the Elderly Project Management The Project Management path for this research proposal will follow the path of quantitative research in a 'quasi-experimental' environment. Adhering as closely as possible to quantitative experiments desig Continue Reading...
UK Mental Health Policy Mental healthcare service delivery in the UK has been subjected to a series of significant imperative policy in the last few decades, and number of people suffering from mental illness is on the increase. Recent statistics re Continue Reading...
in "Piaf," Pam Gems provides a view into the life of the great French singer and arguably the greatest singer of her generation -- Edith Piaf. (Fildier and Primack, 1981), the slices that the playwright provides, more than adequately trace Continue Reading...
Introduction: What Is Known About Elder Abuse Elder abuse occurs at an alarming rate: around one million incidences a year and perhaps more due to under-reporting and inconsistencies in defining what constitutes elder abuse (Falk, Baigis, Kopac, et a Continue Reading...
There is a feeling of psychological maturity that the older worker contributes to the workforce, allowing him or her to actually be a respected leader in the workplace. Experience obviously plays a key role in the psychological success of the aging Continue Reading...
Training Program ProposalTraining is an essential part of customer satisfaction since better-equipped employees would give better services to the customers. The world population has become a consumer of health care, which is considered one of the maj Continue Reading...
nursing program to a BSN program Over the years, promotion of nurses' higher education has been a focus of national reports. One of several reasons for this is growing evidence tying improved performance with continued education. Another factor is Continue Reading...
Cyber Bullying and Its Impact Over the past decade, attention has been drawn to cyber-bullying by the media and researchers. Research on cyber-bullying has covered the various behavior aspects; focusing mainly on demographic and personal factors of Continue Reading...
John Brown: Was he a murderer or a martyr? The actions of John Brown raise many uncomfortable questions about how we view terrorism in modern society. It is often said that 'one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter' and that expression c Continue Reading...
Stand/Being a Patient Advocate Description of the role as a moral agent or advocate for quality and patient safety The present times are challenging for healthcare workers. Exceptional healthcare system alterations, in the form of financial pressu Continue Reading...
