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In this episode, we take a closer look at various coping strategies of healthcare staff exposed to workplace violence.

Show Notes

Theme: Workplace Violence. 

Participants: 
Dr Margaret Murphy, Dr Lex Narushevich, Arvind Karthikeyan, Adamina Drazkiewicz, Amanda De Silva, Pramod Chandru, Harry Hong, Shreyas Iyer, and Caroline Tyers. 

Discussion:
Jeong, I., & Kim, J. (2018). The relationship between intention to leave the hospital and coping methods of emergency nurses after workplace violence. Journal Of Clinical Nursing, 27(7-8), 1692-1701. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14228.

Presenter:
Dr Arvind Karthikeyan - ED Trainee at Tweed Hospital.

Summary:
  • The main aim of this study was to identify the relationship between emergency nurses’ intention to leave the hospital and their coping methods following workplace violence.
  • The coping methods were split into emotion-focused and problem-focused mechanisms. 
  • The study was a cross-sectional study in which surveys were sent out to 7 hospitals in 7 different cities around Korea (completed by nursing staff working in the emergency department).
  • They received 246 returned surveys, and 32 were incomplete, leaving 214 questionnaires to derive their results from.
  • Verbal abuse was the most frequent violence experience. 
  • Of those who experienced violence, 61% considered leaving the hospital.
  • Emotion-focused coping appeared to have a stronger association with nurses’ intention to leave following workplace violence. 
  • This highlights the need for resources and processes in place within the emergency department to support staff and encourage healthy coping mechanisms in response to incidents of violence. 
Take-Home Points: 
  • This article highlights the importance of healthy coping strategies.
  • Having a more formalised, standardised counselling service for healthcare providers would be extremely beneficial (ideally an ‘opt-out’ service). 
 
Credits:
This episode was produced by the ­­­­Emergency Medicine Training Network 5 with the assistance of Dr Kavita Varshney and, Deepa Dasgupta. 

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