Workplace violence is an important health and safety issue. Healthcare workers are
particularly at risk of experiencing workplace violence. Despite the research that was …

Personal experiences of aggression or violence in the workplace lead to serious
consequences for nurses, their patients, patient care and the organisation as a whole. While …

Although fairly frequent in psychiatric in-patient, episodes of aggression/violence are mainly
limited to verbal aggression, but the level of general health is significantly lower in nurses …

Purpose/objectives To determine the prevalence of workplace violence and explore the role
of hospital organizational characteristics and health promotion efforts in reducing hospital …

Aims and objectives To examine nurses' perceptions of physical and verbal violence
perpetrated by patients and visitors and to investigate themes surrounding gender and the …

Purpose–The central purpose of this study is to develop and test a model which examines
the effects of customer verbal aggression on emotional dissonance, emotional exhaustion …

Background Healthcare institutions have commonly reported exposure of employees,
particularly nurses, to high levels of occupational violence. Despite such evidence in the …

Background Nurses constitute the majority of the health workforce in South Africa and they
play a major role in providing primary health care (PHC) services. Job satisfaction influences …

ESMAEILPOUR M., SALSALI M. & AHMADI F.(2011) Workplace violence against Iranian
nurses working in emergency departments. International Nursing Review58, 130–137 …

This self-report questionnaire study was carried out in Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia to highlight
the magnitude, predictors, and circumstances of workplace violence against primary health …