Violence Against Emergency Service Workers

Violence: Recognition, Management and Prevention VIOLENCE AGAINST EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT WORKERS

*College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, †Occupational Medicine Residency Director, College of Medicine, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, and ‡Allbright Health Care Center, Cincinnati Health Department, Cincinnati, Ohio Reprint Address: Donna M. Gates, EDD, RN, FAAN, College of Nursing, 3110 Vine Stree...

Violence Against Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Service Personnel in Guilan Province, Iran: A Cross-Sectional Study

The epidemic of violence against healthcare workers.

S taggering rates of verbal and physical violence are documented in the study by Gerberich and colleagues, published in the June issue of OEM, and yet most nurses and other healthcare workers state that the problem highlighted by this research is not new. Although many healthcare workers believe that workplace violence is increasing, there is a paucity of existing evidence to support these clai...

Client-related Violence against Street Sex Workers

Although a plethora of studies provide evidence of the extent and severity of violence that street sex workers experience from clients, there is little consensus across the explanations that have been advanced to account for this. To explore this, the present study examines in detail the nature of the attacks suffered by 65 female street sex workers. A Multidimensional Scaling analysis, (Smalle...

CLIENT - RELATED VIOLENCE AGAINST STREET SEX WORKERS 1 A Model of Client - Related Violence against Female Street Sex Workers

Although a plethora of studies provide evidence of the extent and severity of violence that street sex workers experience from clients, there is little consensus across the explanations that have been advanced to account for this. To explore this, the present study examines in detail the nature of the attacks suffered by 65 female street sex workers. A Multidimensional Scaling analysis, (Smalle...