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Nurses Find Workplace Violence Part of Their Job, Finds Study
The study showed that three-quarters of nurses who provide private and public care have experienced workplace violence, with 92 percent saying they have been verbally abused, 69 percent saying they have been physically threatened and 52 saying they had been physically assaulted.
A total of 2,354 incidents were reported to the research team, with nurses facing an average of two to 46 incidents a year.
"Many of the nurses who took part in the research said that they did not report incidents because they felt that workplace violence was just part of the job," lead author Dr Rose Chapman, from Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia, said.
The 113 nurses who took part in the study were mainly female, in their early 40s and had been in the profession for between six months and 40 years, with an average service of just under 18 years. Nearly two-thirds worked part-time.
The number and nature of incidents varied depending on what department the nurses worked in.
"The nurses in our study were reluctant to report episodes of workplace violence unless they considered the event to be serious," Dr Chapman said.
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