@article{ref1,
title="Reducing violence against nurses: the violence prevention community meeting",
journal="Issues in mental health nursing",
year="2009",
author="Lanza, M. L. and Rierdan, Jill and Forester, Linda and Zeiss, Robert A.",
volume="30",
number="12",
pages="745-750",
abstract="Research was undertaken to validate the efficacy of a new, nurse-led treatment, the Violence Prevention Community Meeting (VPCM), for reducing patient violence on an acute-care inpatient psychiatry unit. Nursing staff members carried event counters and recorded verbal and physical violence as it occurred over the 20-week study. Significant decreases in patient violence were found across day, evening, and night shifts for pre-treatment vs. treatment and pre-treatment vs. post-treatment comparisons. For the day shift, when twice-weekly VPCM treatment took place, violent incidents decreased 89% from pre-treatment to treatment and 57% from pre-treatment to post-treatment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0161-2840",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}