Investigation of the status on workplace violence of nurses in Hu'nan Province
ZHU Zheng-gang
SHI Xi-xi
LIN Jing
LIU Sha-sha
CHEN Yan
Abstract：Objective To investigate the current status and features of workplace violence of nurses in Hu'nan Province,so as to provide reference to formulate law and policy to protect nurses' right and interest.Methods The hospital workplace violence questionnaire was used to investigate 6 034 clinical nurses who were from all levels of hospitals in Hu'nan Province.Results The total number of nurses who experienced workplace violence was 5 201 (86.19％),among whom suffered an annual average of more than 2 times of workplace violence was 2 997 (57.62％).The main type of workplace violence was language injury(62.29％).Emergency department suffered the most violence which mainly resulted from the lack of communication.More than half of nurses showed that they didn't receive any training to prevent workplace violence,and the hospitals' attitude towards workplace violence was optimistic or not had an important influence on the incidence of workplace violence.Conclusion Nurses from all levels of hospitals in Hu'nan Province who suffer workplace violence is a serious problem which was getting worse year by year.Hospital manages should pay more attention to take various measures to intervene that,in order to maintain nurses' physical and mental health.
Keywords：nursesworkplace violencenursing safety
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 801-803,816 )