Havaei Farinaz, MacPhee Maura, Ma Andy
The University of British Columbia, School of Nursing, Vancouver, V6T 2B5, Canada.
The University of British Columbia, School of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Healthcare (Basel). 2020 Apr 14;8(2):98. doi: 10.3390/healthcare8020098.
Workplace violence in healthcare settings is on the rise, particularly against nurses. Most healthcare violence research is in acute care settings. The purpose of this paper is to present descriptive findings on the prevalence of types and sources of workplace violence among nurses in different roles (i.e., direct care, leader, educator), specialties, care sectors (i.e., acute, community, long-term care) and geographic contexts (i.e., urban, suburban, rural) within the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada. This is a province-wide survey study using a cross-sectional descriptive, correlational design. An electronic survey was emailed by the provincial union to members across the province in Fall 2019. A total of 4462 responses were analyzed using descriptive and chi-square statistics. The most common types of workplace violence were emotional abuse, threats of assault and physical assault for all nursing roles and contexts. Findings were similar to previous BC research from two decades ago except for two to ten times higher proportions of all types of violence, including verbal and physical sexual assault. Patients were the most common source of violence towards nurses. Nurses should be involved in developing workplace violence interventions that are tailored to work environment contexts and populations.
医疗保健场所的工作场所暴力事件正在增加，尤其是针对护士的暴力。大多数医疗保健暴力研究都集中在急症护理环境中。本文的目的是呈现关于加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省（BC）不同角色（即直接护理、领导、教育工作者）、专业、护理部门（即急症、社区、长期护理）和地理环境（即城市、郊区、农村）的护士工作场所暴力类型和来源的普遍性的描述性研究结果。这是一项全省范围的调查研究，采用横断面描述性、相关性设计。2019年秋季，省级工会通过电子邮件向全省会员发送了一份电子调查问卷。共对4462份回复进行了描述性和卡方统计分析。所有护理角色和环境中，工作场所暴力最常见的类型是情感虐待、攻击威胁和身体攻击。研究结果与BC省二十年前的研究相似，但包括言语和身体性侵犯在内的所有类型暴力的比例高出两到十倍。患者是对护士实施暴力最常见的来源。护士应参与制定针对工作环境和人群的工作场所暴力干预措施。
