Abstract Objectives Emergency departments (EDs) currently face a widely acknowledged
issue of workplace violence (WPV) against healthcare workers (HCWs). WPV in the ED …

Background and aim: Healthcare workers (HCWs) employed in Emergency Departments
(EDs) frequently face with patients becoming violent because of long wait or diseases or …

Aims and objectives To explore Iranian nurses' perceptions of and experiences with the
antecedents and consequences of workplace violence perpetrated by patients, patients' …

Introduction Physical and verbal aggression against health professionals, particularly
nurses, is globally serious and widespread, with the most vulnerable being nurses working …

Background: Workplace violence (WPV) in the health care sector remains a prominent,
under-reported global occupational hazard and public health issue. Objective: To determine …

Workplace violence (WPV) is a globally prevailing public health concerns among healthcare
workers. Workplace violence includes occupational abuse (physical, sexual, verbal and …

Abstract Purpose of Review We summarized peer-reviewed literature on aggressive
episodes perpetrated by adult patients admitted to general hospital units, especially …

Introduction: The phenomenon of workplace violence in health care settings, and especially
in the emergency department (ED), has assumed the dimensions of a real epidemic. Many …

Aim To establish the current state of the science about why nurses do or do not report being
the victim of patient aggression, a form of type II workplace violence. This aim includes …

Background Incidents of patient-initiated workplace violence against health care workers
have been a subject of substantial public attention in China. Patient-initiated violence not …