How does workplace violence-reporting culture affect workplace violence, nurse burnout, and patient safety?

Sinhye Kim; Mary R Lynn; Marianne B. Baernholdt; Rebecca Kitzmiller; Cheryl B. Jones

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How does workplace violence-reporting culture affect workplace violence, nurse burnout, and patient safety?

December 7, 2022

Kim S, Lynn MR, Baernholdt MB, et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 2022;38(1):11-18.

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In response to concerns about workplace violence (WPV) directed at healthcare workers in the US, the Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert and recommendations to increase organizational awareness of this risk. This study evaluated the effect of one of those recommendations, a WPV-reporting culture, on nurses’ burnout and patient safety. As anticipated, WPV increased nurse burnout, but unexpectedly, a strong WPV-reporting culture also increased the negative effect of WPV on burnout.

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