ID: 660 Individual and Organizational Factors that Predict Workplace Incivility: Impact on Cost, Absenteeism, and Productivity Author Information: Authors List: Presenting Author: Patricia Lewis Presenting Author: Patricia S. Lewis Address: 2210 N.Fountain Valley Drive Missouri City, TX 77459 USA Ph: 281-274-7860 Fax: Email: [email protected] Institution: Texas Woman's University/Methodist Sugar...

INTRODUCTION Healthcare and social workers have the highest incidence of workplace violence of any industry. Assaults toward healthcare workers account for nearly half of all nonfatal injuries from occupational violence. Our goal was to develop and evaluate an instrument for prospective collection of data relevant to emergency department (ED) violence against healthcare workers. METHODS Parti...

INTRODUCTION Several studies have shown that workplace violence in the emergency department (ED) is common. Residents may be among the most vulnerable staff, as they have the least experience with these volatile encounters. The goal for this study was to quantify and describe acts of violence against emergency medicine (EM) residents by patients and visitors and to identify perceived barriers t...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of workplace violence in Oral healthcare centres against Nigerian dental professionals. METHODS A questionnaire-based cross-sectional survey of 175 randomly selected dental professionals working in Oral healthcare centres of University Teaching Hospitals in Southern Nigeria was conducted. RESULTS The survey response rate was 78.9%. The respondents were ...

Workplace violence has serious consequences for the involved medical workers and the entire health care system (1). It can result in a variety of adverse effects on medical professionals, such as anger, fear, depression, anxiety, job dissatisfaction and demission (2) Research reported that half of abused nurses considered leaving the profession (3). In China, workplace violence against medical ...

Workplace violence has increased especially in the health sector Evidence shows that psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes, emergency rooms and prehospital care section are the areas where most violent acts occur The aim of this paper is to to reflect on the phenomenon of workplace violence in the health sector and present the conceptual model of Chappell and Di Martino, which incorporates sever...

The purpose of this article is to examine the literature on violence against women and employment. After a brief discussion of the definition and consequences of intimate partner violence, the article reviews the research and related literatures to describe the (a) types of job interference tactics used by abusers, (b) employee-level consequences of partner violence, (c) victimized employee res...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this research was to identify the prevalence of violence towards nursing staff in Slovenian nursing homes. METHODS For the purpose of this study, a non-experimental sampling method was employed, using a structured questionnaire as a data collection instrument (n=527). The contents of the questionnaire proved valid and reliable, with a high enough degree of internal...

Workplace ostracism was originally defined that individuals were excluded or ignored or disregard by other employees. Workplace ostracism is a kind of “cold violence”, which has been paid attention widespread. The study reported here mainly summarized workplace ostracism and its effects from lots of domestic and foreign literatures. Firstly, we comb the conceptions and nature of workplace ostra...

Objective: to reflect on the consequences of workplace violence experienced by nursing professionals. Methods: this is a reflection paper based on recent publications related to the subject, particularly researches carried out in Brazil and in other countries. Results: exposure to workplace violence has been associated with health problems in nursing professionals, which may be physical dam...