Push for Safer Hospitals: Improve Violence Reporting
May 16, 2024
MedScape - Do we really need more data on workplace violence to craft laws and policies to better protect healthcare workers from aggression on the job? Some experts argued that yes, such information is essential to address this thorny problem. MedScape - One is Joanne DeSanto Iennaco, PhD, APRN, professor and director of the Clinical Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at Yale School of Nursing, Yale University, in West Haven, Connecticut, and lead author of a new study in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, describing a reporting system designed to easily tally and classify the incidence of such aggression.
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