Citation

Liu Y, Ju QM, Yang JQ, Shen Q. Int. J. Evid. Based Healthc. 2014; 12(3): 220.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1097/01.XEB.0000455249.52485.2d

PMID

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Currently, high occurrence rate of working place violence has become the focused issue of occupational health and safety organization; especially in health care industry, the working place violence has severely impacted the safety, health and working enthusiasm of nursing staff. Globally, medical personnel are at higher risk of suffering from hospital violence, much higher than the average level of the whole society of working place violence, which is 4 times the other service industry workers, meanwhile, both domestic and foreign researches have also confirmed that medical institutions have high incidence of working place violence.

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this paper is to investigate the situation of the nurses against the hospital violence and analysis the causes, as well as the attitudes and coping style of nurses.

METHODS: The hospital violence questionnaire was applied to 225 nurses from 5 hospitals and the results were analyzed statistically by SPSS 19.0.

RESULTS: The result shows that 68.9% of nurses suffered hospital violence in past year, and 44.4% of whom think that the main reason is the low patient quality, and 38.7% of them keep tolerance, 45.3% feel wronged, and 37.3% of them think the attitude of the hospital is 'handle duly and fairly based on the truth'. No more than 78.7% of hospitals adopted installalation of cameras in endemic areas.

DISCUSSION: In order to protect the safety and interests of nurses the hospital should analyze the causes and take appropriate measures.

CONCLUSION: In this paper, through the description of the current situation that the nurses suffered the hospital violence, the investigation of reason and treatment of violence was carried out to ensure the safety of nurses as well as maintain the good working environment. International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare (C) 2014 The Joanna Briggs Institute

Language: en