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The violence can severely take a toll on someone's mental health. The article states, "A systematic review of 68 studies found workplace violence was most strongly associated with negative psychological outcomes, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, sleep disturbances and fatigue". [36]
The possible consequences of workplace violence for nurses includes: [10] [12] [13] [27] [14] impacted health: mental, psychological, emotional, physical, and social; anxiety and/or depression; loss of appetite; weight loss/gain; nausea or vomiting; insomnia and/or nightmares; menstrual disturbances; feelings of shame, helplessness, and/or ...
Workplace depression can occur in many companies of various size and profession, and can have negative effects on positive profit growth. [115] Stress factors that are unique to one's working environment, such as bullying from co-workers or superiors and poor social support for high pressure occupations, can build over time and create ...
Last April, when an 81-year-old hospice patient was found dead in his room at a Warren nursing home, suffocated by pillow stuffing, police charged his 76-year-old roommate, who had become agitated ...
"Abuse and violence against our healthcare workers is unacceptable," writes A.J. Wilhemi, CEO of the Illinois Health and Hospital Association.
Workplace aggression is a specific type of aggression which occurs in the workplace. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Workplace aggression is any type of hostile behavior that occurs in the workplace. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 4 ] It can range from verbal insults and threats to physical violence, and it can occur between coworkers, supervisors, and subordinates.
Perline & Goldschmidt define two types of workplace violence: 1) Object-focused workplace violence is violence that occurs to obtain some object, such as money, drugs, jewelry, etc., and 2) non-object-focused violence, which is emotionally based, and mostly associated with anger. Anger generally requires frustration and perceived injustice.
[27] Men experience less workplace sexual harassment than women, as only 16.7% of victims of rape/sexual assault were reportedly men, but men face more workplace violence. [27] According to this report, 72% of people who were robbed in their workplace were men, men made up 74.4% of the people who experienced aggravated assault, and 66.1% of ...