[NRSKarenRN]

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Workplace Violence and Corporate Policy for Health Care Settings

From Nursing Economics
Posted 08/05/2005
Paul T. Clements; Joseph T. DeRanieri; Kathleen Clark; Martin S. Manno; Douglas Wolcik Kuhn

Introduction

Typically thought of as "safe" places, health care agencies are now facing a significant increase in multidirectional acts of aggression from personnel, clients, and visitors (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health [NIOSH], 2003). Media coverage of workplace violence has heightened the underlying sense of insecurity about when, where, and how the next traumatic event will occur. Health care providers are now confronted with the idea that "it could happen here" and "it could happen to me."

[Jessy_RN]

It sad to say that the entire earth is getting more violent each day.