Citation

Chappell S. J. Nurs. Adm. 2015; 45(7-8): 358-360.

Affiliation

Author Affiliation: Senior Communications Specialist, Advocacy and Special Projects, American Organization of Nurse Executives, Chicago, Illinois. The author declares no conflicts of interest.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/NNA.0000000000000214

PMID

26204376

Abstract

Violence in the workplace, including violence toward staff from patients and families as well as lateral violence, has become a serious safety issue for hospitals in the United States. Concerned about this issue, the Emergency Nurses Association and the American Organization of Nurse Executives convened a Day of Dialogue to discuss ways to mitigate violence in the workplace. The result of the discussion was the development of guiding principles and a toolkit to assist nurse leaders in systemically reducing lateral violence and patient and family violence in hospitals.

Language: en