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The bill requires the Department of Labor to address workplace violence in health care, social service, and other related sectors. Additionally the Department of Labor must issue an interim occupational safety and health standard that requires certain employers to take actions to protect workers and other personnel from workplace violence.
"Eradication of Horizontal Violence and Bullying in Nursing". FNA Proposal for Action. Florida Nurses Association Board of Directors. Chipps, Esther (2009). Workplace Bullying and Normalization of Bullying Acts in the Nursing Workplace. Midwest Nursing Research Society. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011.
Nurses dealing with more mental health issues is something that has come from dealing with workplace violence. In a study, it was found that somewhere between sixty and ninety percent of nurses are exposed to physical or verbal violence at some point in their work. [35] This shows how real it is within a nurse's daily work life.
A home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house and should be fined about $161,000 ...
Workplace bullying is a persistent pattern of mistreatment from others in the workplace that causes either physical or emotional harm. It includes verbal , nonverbal , psychological , and physical abuse , as well as humiliation .
Dowd yelled at a nurse to get off the phone and “do your job,” a nurse wrote in a logbook entry filed in court. “He got into my face,” the nurse wrote. “It looked like he was going to ...
In 2011 the Emergency Nurses Association studies the occurrence of physical violence at 54.4% and verbal violence at 42.5% among emergency room nurses. [7] Within this study, 55.7% perpetrators of physical violence were under the influence of alcohol. 46.8% were under the influence of illegal or prescription drugs, and 45.2% were being treated ...
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