Nursing and Workplace Violence Assignment

   

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Running head: NURSING AND WORKPLACE VIOLENCENursing and workplace violenceName of the student:Name of the University:Author’s note
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1NURSING AND WORKPLACE VIOLENCEOverviewWorkplace violence is one of the major occupational issues in the health care environment. Health care workers such as nurses and other care providers are at high risk of experiencing workplace violence due to great deal of contact with public. Violence has been experienced by nurses in several forms such as physical violence, verbal violence and sexual harassment. It results in negative workplace environment and issues in quality of work too (AnnMarie Papa, Jeanne Venella & CEN, 2013). In response to serious problem faced in health care setting due to violence between patients and caregivers, this newsletters gives clear insight to employees regarding the factors contributing to workplace balance and the OSHA regulation and ANA position statement on preventing workplace violence. It also provides guidelines to hospital employees to understand the protocols that they can follow to respond to workplace violence.Factors contributing to violence in health care setting:`There are different source of violence in health care setting and in 80% of cases, patients are the main source of violence. Apart from patients, coworkers, nursing students, customer, family members of patient and other person also engage in physical violence. There might be difference cause of violent behavior of patient. Patients come to health care setting suffering from different illness. Some patients may have history of violence or some may be suffering from psychiatric illness and mental disorder. There are other groups of patients who tend to showirritation and violence due to the influence of drugs (Spector, Zhou & Che, 2014). Hence, in suchcondition issues like poor quality of care, poor hygiene, medical errors or violation of privacy of patients lead to physical or verbal abuse from patients.
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2NURSING AND WORKPLACE VIOLENCEThere are political causes of violence too which implies the role of health care provider and health care organization in contributing to violence. The political factors in health care setting includes presence of high quality infrastructure, arrangement for safety of patient, good environmental design and development of effective communication protocols in health care setting and active response to bullying incidents (Blackstock et al., 2015). However, when any ofthese political factors are not adequately provided to health consumers, then this contribute to risk of workplace violence related events. For example, poor environmental design might be a concern for health care consumer and paying little attention to their complains might result in physical or verbal abuse. Poor attention to addressing these issues also has an impact on turnoverintentions of nursing staff. Inefficiency of staffs in carrying out their core responsibilities also results in long waitingtime and overcrowding in waiting rooms creating an environment workplace violence. In additional, legislative factors like poor workplace policy, lack of safety protocols for patient and guideline for reporting and responding to workplace violence issues leads to origin of disputes and workplace violence. In such situation, implementing preventive measures to address workplace violence issue is an immediate priority for health care provider. This is necessary because it has a direct impact on job performance, quality of work, psychological demand and control over task (Bordignon & Monteiro, 2016).Comparison of OSHA regulation and ANA position statement on workplace violenceThe Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has provided the Occupational Safety and Health Act which assure safe and healthy work environment for workers by enforcement of relevant standards mentioned under the Act. The mission of OSHA is
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