Experience of workplace violence against emergency nurses: Suggesting managerial policies and control measures

被引:2
作者
Abdel-Sattar, Sahar Abdel-Latif [1 ]
Saleh, Manal S. Moustafa [1 ,2 ]
Alenezi, Atallah [3 ]
机构
[1] Zagazig Univ, Fac Nursing, Nursing Adm, Zagazig, Egypt
[2] Shaara Univ, Coll Appl Med Sci, Nursing Adm, Shaara, Saudi Arabia
[3] Shaara Univ, Coll Appl Med Sci, Nursing Mental Hlth, Shaara, Saudi Arabia
来源
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED AND APPLIED SCIENCES | 2020年 / 7卷 / 09期
关键词
Workplace-violence; Emergency nurses; Managerial policies; Control measures; HEALTH-CARE; HOSPITALS; EXPOSURE;
D O I
10.21833/ijaas.2020.09.004
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The occupational health and safety duty act requires employers to provide a safe and healthy workplace for all of their responsible nursing staff and to gross rational steps to avoid or decline the risk of workplace violence. The aim of the study was to investigate workplace violence against emergency nurses: Suggesting managerial policies and measures used to control it. Descriptive methodological approach was used to fulfillment study aim. The study was conducted at emergency hospital of Zagazig University Hospitals. A purposive sample of 135 nurses working in emergency hospital and fulfilled the inclusion criteria and Jury committee sample (30 experts). An adjusted self-administered questionnaire which comprised of three parts: Socio-demographic of the nurses, Workplace violence and opinionative sheet. The findings clear that 39.3% of the nurses were aged from 20-30 years, with a mean age 35.61 +/- 10.67years. The majority of them (89.6%) were females. More than half of them (53.3%) were reported very worried, while only one-quarter (25.9%) of them reported that they didn't worried at all. All the studied nurses (100%) exposed to workplace violence, and 63.0% of them exposed to physical workplace violence. two-thirds of them (68.1%) were very dissatisfied with the manner in which the incident was handled. (97.0%) nurses reported their hospital did not develop any policies related workplace violence. Suggesting managerial policies and control measures should be applied and practiced at Emergency hospital, disseminated by the hospital administration to all departments, reviewed, revised and updated periodically as appropriate and as necessary. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by IASE.
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