Introduction On psychiatric wards, aggressive behaviour displayed by patients is common
and problematic. Understanding factors associated with the development of aggression …

Background While nurse‐sensitive outcomes (NSOs) are well established in numerous
health settings, to date there is no indicator suite of NSOs for inpatient mental health …

Nurses who experience workplace violence exhibit compromised care quality and
decreased work morale, which may increase their turnover rate. This study explored …

This analysis (1) describes the prevalence and severity of psychiatric inpatient violence
against nurses in Switzerland's German‐speaking region and (2) investigates the …

Nurses' attitudes about the causes and management of aggression affects their choice of
intervention. We aimed to compare the attitudes held by patients and staff in a forensic …

Accessible summary This paper reports the thoughts and feelings experienced by registered
mental health nurses caring for distressed and/or disturbed service users in acute inpatient …

Purpose: To investigate and describe the nature and extent of violence against nurses and
the perceived effects thereof on nurses in the southern region of Malawi. Methods: A …

Violence in the workplace is an aggressive epidemic affecting health care workers on a
global scale (International Labour Organization et al., 2002). According to the World Health …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to describe how aggressive and violent incidents
differ across specialist gender, security and mental health/learning disability pathways in …

The aim of the present integrative review is to identify and describe risk factors and triggers
that may result in patient-initiated violence on inpatient psychiatric units. Original studies …