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.
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Study findings suggest that WPV also may be associated with higher risk of interpersonal
violence, psychoactive substance abuse, burnout, suicidal ideation, and suicide.
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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.Key words
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Biography
Lisa A. Wolf, is Director, Emergency Nursing Research, Emergency Nurses Association, Schaumburg, IL. Twitter: @LisaWol97737411. ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7065-470X; Associate Professor, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA. ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7065-470X; and ENA Member, Pioneer Valley Chapter.
Biography
Christian N. Burchill is Director of Nursing Research and Science, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, Lancaster, PA. ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4310-9615.
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Section Editor: Lisa Wolf, PhD, RN, CEN, FAEN
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