An explorative study of workplace violence against nurses who care for older people.

Mamdouh El-HneitiAbeer M ShaheenAyman Bani SalamehRami Mohammad Al-DweeriMahmoud Ogla Al-HussamiFathi Tawfiq AlfaouriMuayyad Ahmad

Published in: Nursing open (2019)

Almost 60% of the participants have been victims of violence at the workplace during the past year. Nurses who consider violence a problem at work have high levels of working stress (p < .01) as well as lower levels of quality of care (p < .01) and job satisfaction (p < .001).

Keyphrases

mental health
healthcare
quality improvement
intimate partner violence
palliative care
pain management
health promotion
social support
depressive symptoms
heat stress