Risk of Violence among Nurses in Emergency Departments at Baghdad City Hospitals: The Mediating Role of the Work Environment

Background: Workplace violence is a problem of international healthcare among the workers in alldepartments systems, but more severe at emergency departments.Nurses theemergency departments are working on front lines violence. This study aims to examine risk ofviolence nurses and find out association between nurses’ age,years nursing, years departments, work hours, violent events bypatients, by coworkers, likelihood exposure future, environment,intention leave job, violence.Method: A descriptive predictive design has been carried out.A non-probability (convenience) sampleof (380) from (12) hospitals Baghdad city center were selected toparticipate study.Data collected through self-report instrument that includesnurses socio-demographic data, theemployment general information about events, Intention Leave Job Scale, Riskof Violence Violent Events Patient co-workers Likelihood ofExposure Future Scale Nursing Work Environment Scale. The data analyzedusing Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26.The results revealed thata half described they can expose theworkplace as average. There statistically significant inverse correlation age, ofexperience experience EDs their event andrisk researcher concluded younger nurses, less have innursing, EDs, greater