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Prevention of patient violence and staff injuries is critical in home care, where clinicians work alone in the community in patients' residences and do not have other health care providers or security personnel on site when patients escalate toward violent behavior.
Workplace violence is increasing, and health care environments are not immune to this escalating public health problem. In order to prevent or diminish the risk of a violent episode in the health care setting committed by employees, former employees, or family/significant others, health care managers need to be cognizant of certain factors associated with violence in the workplace. These variables include employee characteristics and behavior patterns, coworker indicators, organizational policies and procedures, mentally impaired employees, and so forth. Prevention strategies, use of employee assistance programs, managerial responses in escalating situations, impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and postviolence interventions must also be considered as part of progressive health care system administration, relative to the phenomenon of workplace violence.
Violence permeates every aspect of society, including the health care organization. Appropriate health care organizational response to the phenomenon of violence requires recognition that the emergence of violence is associated with patient, staff, situational, and environmental variables, and it is predictable in most instances. Effective management of violent patients requires comprehensive organizational policies, procedures, and protocols, combined with periodic staff training and retraining. Health care organizations and their personnel need to be knowledgeable about pre-assaultive clinical symptomatology, modification of staff behaviors and environmental factors with the goal of reducing the potential for violence, therapeutic interventions during both pre-assaultive and violent phases of patient behavior, and quality assurance and risk management issues implicit in managing violent patients.
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