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Assessing risk for violence on home health visits.
Authors
McPhaul K; Lipscomb J; Johnson J
Source
Home Healthc Nurse 2010 May; 28(5):278-289
NIOSHTIC No.
20036834
Abstract
The objective of this study was to develop and test measures for assessing risk of violence toward staff during home visits. Home visiting health workers from public and private home visiting programs in a Mid-Atlantic state (n = 130) were surveyed to assess exposure to risky home visits, verbal and physical violence, and workplace violence safety climate. Two measures demonstrated evidence of reliability and validity moving the safety research closer to developing tools and processes for protecting home care clinicians.
Keywords
Health-care-personnel; Health-services; Nursing; Occupational-exposure; Occupational-health-nursing; Occupational-health-services; Occupational-medicine-programs; Risk-analysis; Risk-factors; Safety-measures; Safety-practices
Contact
Kathleen McPhaul, PhD, MPH, BSN, Work and Health Research Center, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD 21201
CODEN
HHNUEJ
Publication Date
20100501
Document Type
Journal Article
Email Address
Mcphaul@son.umaryland.edu
Funding Type
Grant
Fiscal Year
2010
Identifying No.
Grant-Number-R21-OH-007754
Issue of Publication
5
ISSN
0884-741X
Source Name
Home Healthcare Nurse
State
MD
Performing Organization
University of Maryland
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