Recommendations for Reducing Workplace Violence in Hospitals

Updated: 6/17/2020

1. Complete background checks on new employees.
2. Create a policy that prevents harassment.
3. Create an effective line of communication.
4. Training and awareness are key factors in workplace violence prevention.
5. Establish a strict anti-violence policy.
6. Encourage your employees to accept individual differences.

Still, there are some things you can do:

1. Participate in educational training on violence awareness and prevention.
2. Learn and maintain your knowledge of your hospital’s safety policies, procedures and crisis plans.
3. Report it!
4. Press charges if you are assaulted.
5. Support co-workers who experience violence.

1. Eliminate the “Normalization” of Workplace Violence Against Healthcare Workers.
2. Implement Education and Training Programs.
3. Institute Reporting Policies and Procedures.
4. Utilize Technology.

Improvement of services in a global fashion; employment of adequate number of doctors and other steps to ease the rush of patients and long waiting hours; use of technology to prevent long queues in the hospital; ensuring regular communication with the patients; transparent billing systems; and installation of CCTV and …

Type 2 violence is the most common cause of physical violence in the healthcare setting, and type 3 violence is the most prevalent type of healthcare workplace violence.

Type 2 violence is the most common in healthcare settings. This course considers the customer/client relationship to include patients, their family members, and visitors, and will be referred to as CLIENT-ON-WORKER VIOLENCE.

What are six risk factors for violence? Poverty, family violence, exposure to media violence, availability of weapons, drug abuse, and membership in gangs.

Emotional or psychological abuse Emotional abuse often coexists with other forms of abuse, and it is the most difficult to identify.

Collective violence

• Physical violence.
• Sexual violence.
• Psychological violence.
• Neglect.

Violence can be broadly divided into three broad categories—direct violence, structural violence and cultural violence.

Violence occurs in homes, workplaces, public institutions, schools, health care facilities and the street. Women and children are as often the victims of violence as are men, and most often the violence is committed by someone known to the victim.

Individual Risk Factors

• History of violent victimization.
• Attention deficits, hyperactivity, or learning disorders.
• History of early aggressive behavior.
• Involvement with drugs, alcohol, or tobacco.
• Low IQ.
• Poor behavioral control.
• Deficits in social cognitive or information-processing abilities.
• High emotional distress.

Gender violence includes rape, sexual assault, intimate partner violence in heterosexual and same sex partnerships, sexual harassment, stalking, prostitution and sex trafficking. This type of violence in some way influences or is influenced by gender relations. …

Gender-based violence (GBV) by definition GBV is violence directed against a person because of that person’s gender or violence that affects persons of a particular gender disproportionately.

Forms of gender-based violence

• Violence against women and girls (VAWG) GBV is disproportionately directed against women and girls [4].
• Violence against LGBTI people.
• Intimate partner violence (IPV)
• Domestic violence (DV)
• Sexual violence (SV)
• Indirect (structural) violence.

Physical violence includes beating, burning, kicking, punching, biting, maiming or killing, or the use of objects or weapons. Physical violence is an act attempting to cause, or resulting in, pain and/or physical injury.

Types of physical abuse

• scratching or biting.
• pushing or shoving.
• slapping.
• kicking.
• choking or strangling.
• throwing things.
• force feeding or denying you food.
• using weapons or objects that could hurt you.

The four different main types of child abuse are physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse.