results overall, 97 (71.9%) hospital nurses experienced msds in at least one anatomical site within the last year. low back pain was the most prevalent msds (40%) and hip and thigh were the least (11.1%) frequent sites. most of the nurses with msds worked at surgery wards (17.8%), emergency (15.6%) and intensive care units (12.6%). pain (48.1%) and cramps (31.9%) were the most frequent symptoms...

conclusions nursing managers should use proper strategies to improve nurses’ work engagement and decrease the incidence of incivility in hospitals and clinical environments. results the means of work engagement and workplace incivility scores were 3.59 ± 1.16 (average) and 2.68 ± 0.65 (low), respectively. a significant negative correlation was found between work engagement and workplace incivil...

cognitive-based human errors have major contribution to performance and safety in working environment. this study designed to develop a measurement tool in order to evaluate this type of errors in the occupational settings. an occupational cognitive failure questionnaire (ocfq) was developed. content validity of the ocfq was performed using a quantitative approach. reliability of questionnaire ...

introduction: the prevalence of behavioral disorders is substantially higher in stressful working environments such as emergency departments. the present study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of personality disorders among emergency nurses. methods: in the present epidemiologic study, the prevalence of personality disorders among emergency nurses of three educational hospitals, tehran, iran, w...

Workplace Violence in HealtH care: a continuous Global problem and its cHaracteristics in cHina Workplace violence is a persistent problem in health care worldwide. The victims are usually nurses and workers in the emergency department.[1‐8] The academic debate, as it develops overtime, would allow us to gain an integral insight about this problem. The author searched the related research and d...

BACKGROUND Violence in the workplace is a serious social and public health problem. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of workplace violence and to identify potential predictors of workplace violence at Serbian Primary Health Care (PHC) centres. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted between October 2012 and July 2013. The sample consisted of medical and non-med...

OBJECTIVES To determine the one year prevalence of workplace abuse and sexual harassment and to determine the extent of their associations with symptoms of depression. METHODS A total of 387 female faculty and staff from colleges in Awassa, Ethiopia completed a self-administered questionnaire which collected information about relationships, mood and feelings, thoughts and satisfaction concern...

Background: A group of experts attending a tripartite interregional meeting on best practices in HIV/AIDS workplace policies and programmes organised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, identifi ed 34 best practice workplace HIV programmes from across the world. Method: The ten criteria that were used for reviewing best practice workplace HIV/AIDS programmes i...

BACKGROUND The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) helps protect the health and safety of all people. The workplace can be used to reach millions of workers and their families with programs, policies, and benefits that promote health. We describe a CDC-led project to build Cargill's workplace health promotion capacity and identify the importance of a company liaison in the publi...

This paper describes current US trends and practices regarding workplace personal assistance services (PAS) as part of available work accommodation options. Workplace PAS include task-related assistance at work, such as readers, interpreters, help with lifting or reaching, re-assignment of non-essential duties to co-workers, and other help related to performing work tasks; and personal care-rel...