Issues in mental health nursing
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Issues Ment Health Nurs · Feb 2010
ReviewViolence against women: the phenomenon of workplace violence against nurses.
Registered nurses have been the recipients of an alarming increase in workplace violence (WPV). Emergency and psychiatric nurses have been found to be the most vulnerable and yet few solid reporting procedures exist to fully account for a true number of incidents. ⋯ The nursing shortage is expected only to increase; recruitment and retention of qualified staff members may be deterred by WPV. This necessitates focused research on the phenomenon of workplace violence in health care.