Workplace violence against nurses: a narrative review

Kafle, Smita; Paudel, Swosti; Thapaliya, Anisha; Acharya, Roshan

doi:10.18053/jctres.08.202205.010

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“…Workplace violence within healthcare is attributed to the following antecedents: understaffing, stress within the healthcare system, increased patient morbidities, prolonged wait times, and other events leading to dissatisfied patients who have limited amelioration resources (Kafle et al, 2022). Violence affects nurses' biophysiological, cognitive, emotional, and social realms and contributes to burnout, turnover, negative nurse-patient relationships, and potential safety concerns.…”

Section: Violencementioning

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The Neuman Systems Model: A Framework for Aggression and Violence Prevention

Malpass,

Carroll

2024

Nurs Sci Q

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Aggression and violence influence nurse-client relationships and the quality of care provided, and just as important, they also influence the nurses’ physical and emotional well-being. The Neuman systems model is utilized to define and understand factors that contribute to aggressive and violent behavior and for the purposes of providing a systematic approach to the prevention and management of stressors leading to aggression and violence.

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Section: Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

The Neuman Systems Model: A Framework for Aggression and Violence Prevention

Malpass,

Carroll

2024

Nurs Sci Q

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“…For example, the issue of workplace violence-which was discussed by multiple participants in this study as being detrimental to their mental health. Workplace violence in nursing occurs at rates higher than all other professions, including policing, whereas approximately 60% of Canadian nurses report experiencing at least one episode of workplace violence (Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, 2017), outside of Canada varying prevalence rates are reported, but remain high (Kafle et al, 2022). It is suggested there is a widespread culture of acceptance of violence in healthcare, notably at a system level (Kim et al, 2023), even though nurses continue to acknowledge the magnitude of the problem.…”

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“I feel broken”: Chronicling burnout, mental health, and the limits of individual resilience in nursing

Akoo,

McMillan,

Price

et al. 2023

Nursing Inquiry

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Healthcare systems and health professionals are facing a litany of stressors that have been compounded by the pandemic, and consequently, this has further perpetuated suboptimal mental health and burnout in nursing. The purpose of this paper is to report select findings from a larger, national study exploring gendered experiences of mental health, leave of absence (LOA), and return to work from the perspectives of nurses and key stakeholders. Given the breadth of the data, this paper will focus exclusively on the qualitative results from 53 frontline Canadian nurses who were purposively recruited for their workplace insight. This paper focuses on the substantive theme of “Breaking Point,” in which nurses articulated a multiplicity of stress points at the individual, organizational, and societal levels that amplified burnout and accelerated mental health LOA from the workplace. These findings exemplify the complexities that underlie nurses' mental health and burnout and highlight the urgent need for multipronged individual, organizational, and structural interventions. Robust and timely interventions are needed to restore the health of the nursing profession and sustain its future.

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“…However, no systematic reviews have been conducted thus far on the association between workplace bullying and job stress and the professional quality of life of nurses. Moreover, two systematic reviews [ 40 , 41 ], one narrative review [ 42 ], one scoping review [ 43 ], and one umbrella review [ 44 ] have already examined the impact of workplace bullying caused by patients and relatives on nurses. The literature suggests that workplace bullying caused by patients and relatives increases turnover intention, absenteeism, burnout, job dissatisfaction, post-traumatic stress disorder, stress, anxiety, depression, and fear among nurses.…”

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Association between Workplace Bullying, Job Stress, and Professional Quality of Life in Nurses: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Galanis,

Moisoglou,

Katsiroumpa

et al. 2024

Healthcare

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Workplace bullying affects workers’ lives, causing several mental and physical health problems and job-related issues. Therefore, a summary of the evidence on the consequences of workplace bullying on workers’ lives is essential to improve working conditions. The literature lacks systematic reviews and meta-analyses on the association between workplace bullying and job stress and the professional quality of life of nurses. Thus, we aimed to quantitatively summarize the data on the association between workplace bullying, job stress, and professional quality of life. We performed our study in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines. The review protocol was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42024495948). We searched PubMed, Medline, Scopus, Cinahl, and Web of Science up to 4 January 2024. We calculated pooled correlation coefficients and 95% confidence intervals [CI]. We identified nine studies with a total of 3730 nurses. We found a moderate positive correlation between workplace bullying and job stress (pooled correlation coefficient = 0.34, 95% CI = 0.29 to 0.39). Moreover, a small negative correlation between workplace bullying and compassion satisfaction (pooled correlation coefficient = −0.28, 95% CI = −0.41 to −0.15) was identified. Additionally, our findings suggested a moderate positive correlation between workplace bullying and job burnout (pooled correlation coefficient = 0.43, 95% CI = 0.32 to 0.53) and secondary traumatic stress (pooled correlation coefficient = 0.36, 95% CI = 0.11 to 0.57). Our findings can help nursing managers and policy-makers to draw attention to workplace bullying by implementing effective interventions, so as to reduce the bullying of nurses.

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Workplace violence against nurses: a narrative review

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

The Neuman Systems Model: A Framework for Aggression and Violence Prevention

The Neuman Systems Model: A Framework for Aggression and Violence Prevention

“I feel broken”: Chronicling burnout, mental health, and the limits of individual resilience in nursing

Association between Workplace Bullying, Job Stress, and Professional Quality of Life in Nurses: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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