organizational/institutional policies for prevention and punishment. While the criminal justice system has appropriately responded to school and workplace violence, it has failed to discourage and prevent the rise of more offenders.
Week 5 -- Discussion 2
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create a shared understanding for sound leadership based on prevalent security challenges.
2. Workplace violence is a major concern among protection professionals in large industrial and commercial organizations. Why should this be so when the workplace – especially an office – is essentially one of the safest places for people to be?
Any gathering and interaction of humans in a given place (such as an organization) renders differences of opinion, disputes and discord unavoidable. For all security personnel, these are cause for concern, since they form triggers which lead to violence at the workplace.
Stress
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and are more prone to making errors or experiencing workplace violence and abuse. Patients are dying from preventable causes or becoming ill due to inefficient nursing care. If nothing is done soon to mitigate the nursing shortage, the entire globe could witness major crises in healthcare delivery.
Nurses have recently made inroads to improve the role and status of the profession, but much more needs to be done. The burgeoning patient population implies ever-increasing demand for qualified nursing staff, but there is no real plan in place anywhere to ensure that enough nurses will be staffed at the healthcare… Continue Reading...