Burchill Christian
Work. 2015;51(1):61-6. doi: 10.3233/WOR-141889.
Much of the research on violence committed by patients and family members against healthcare providers in the hospital focus on the frequency and severity of incidents plus personal, perpetrator, and hospital characteristics. The literature lacks research on those factors that make healthcare providers in hospitals feel safe from workplace violence committed by patients and family members.
The objective of this project is to design an instrument to measure the perceptions of personal safety of emergency nurses in the workplace.
To develop the Personal Workplace Safety Instrument for Emergency Nurses (PWSI EN) an extensive review of the literature was conducted and recurrent themes identified. Informal focus groups of emergency nurses and discussions with administrators were conducted to confirm these themes. A review by workplace violence experts and a pilot test with emergency nurses was conducted.
The instrument has 31 Likert-scale items to measure the factors of workplace countermeasures, patient-nurse interactions, and administrative and judicial support measures. Fifteen demographic questions were developed to measure characteristics of the nurse and hospital. Results of the expert panel review yielded high content validity (cumulative validity index = 0.98).
The instrument is valid to measure the perceptions of personal safety in the workplace with emergency nurses.
医院中关于患者及家属对医护人员实施暴力行为的许多研究都集中在事件的频率和严重程度，以及个人、施暴者和医院的特征上。文献中缺乏对那些能让医院医护人员在面对患者及家属实施的工作场所暴力时感到安全的因素的研究。
本项目的目的是设计一种工具，用于测量急诊护士在工作场所的个人安全感知。
为开发急诊护士个人工作场所安全工具（PWSI EN），对文献进行了广泛回顾并确定了反复出现的主题。组织了急诊护士的非正式焦点小组并与管理人员进行了讨论，以确认这些主题。进行了工作场所暴力专家评审和急诊护士的预测试。
该工具包含31个李克特量表项目，用于测量工作场所应对措施、护患互动以及行政和司法支持措施等因素。还设计了15个人口统计学问题，以测量护士和医院的特征。专家小组评审结果显示内容效度高（累积效度指数 = 0.98）。
该工具可有效测量急诊护士在工作场所的个人安全感知。
