Citation

Wolf LA, Burchill CN. J. Emerg. Nurs. 2023; 49(3): 330-332.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, Emergency Nurses Association, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jen.2023.01.004

PMID

37150558

Abstract

Workplace violence (WPV) in health care settings can create long-term sequelae for nurses, including anxiety, poor sleep patterns, work-related stress disorders, depressive disorders, and psychological distress. Study findings suggest that WPV also may be associated with higher risk of interpersonal violence, psychoactive substance abuse, burnout, suicidal ideation, and suicide. Identifying interventions that can reduce both the prevalence and effects of WPV is a critically important line of research; emergency department-focused researchers examining elements of WPV must account for significant challenges in conducting meaningful research, including the lack of an accepted definition, challenges in data collection, unclear metrics or outcome measures, and methodological limitations. In this paper, we aim to describe these challenges and offer suggestions to help researchers and others to better define the phenomenon of WPV, the necessary data required, ways to collect data, and outcome measures that can be used to guide intervention development or selection.

Language: en

Keywords

Research; Emergency nursing; Workplace violence