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Citation |
Schmidt J. Am. J. Nurs. 2020; 120(2): 11. |
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Affiliation |
Joanne Schmidt is a family NP and a student in the DNP program at Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, CT. Contact author: jo.schmidt@yale.edu. The author has disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2020, American Nurses Association, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins) |
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31977398 |
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Abstract |
... Minimal literature has been published on workplace violence prevention for nurses working in areas such as home care, schools, correctional facilities, medical mobile vans, or forensics. Most workplace violence prevention efforts in health care are based on hospital settings. But there are many stories that do not fit this model. I worked with a nurse who had been savagely mauled by a dog during a home visit. She survived the incident by placing her head and neck between an infant scale and a wall. Another nurse described locking herself and several students in a school clinic during an active shooter incident. More recently, I've had conversations with nurses about their experiences working in medical mobile vans without security guards or call buttons and with limited physical barriers, including no locking doors ... Language: en |