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Workplace Violence Ethical Dilemma

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Course Number: NUR4242

Date: November 22nd, 2020

Workplace Violence

Health care is identified as a field where workplace violence occurs often. There is lack of accurate data since most of the incidences of violence fail to be reported. Reduction of workplace violence requires an understanding of the prevalence and depending on the scope, type and extent of the violence, appropriate measures can be adopted to achieve its reduction and prevention (Üzar-Özçetin et al., 2020). Evaluations in terms of surveys depict that only between 10-25% of the workplace violence submit any formal reports (Kvas & Seljak, 2014). Low reporting rates of violence incidences is identified as a result of numerous elements that impact the decision of a person on whether to report the violence or not.

Prevention of violence at the workplace includes first acknowledging its existence and provide that appropriate measures of reporting violence actions (Kvas & Seljak, 2014). According to Kvas & Seljak (2014), there is the common belief that workplace violence forms part of the job especially in nursing (Alkorashy & Al Moalad, 2016). It shows that nurses usually accept the violence as a routine occupational risk. The perception includes a solid barrier in the creation of appropriate approaches to prevent violence and guaranteeing a safe working setting (Alkorashy & Al Moalad, 2016).

Workplace violence has been described as the incidents that involves abuse, threatening, or assaulting of staff in conditions related to their work (Alkorashy & Al Moalad, 2016). They include commuting to and from work, that involve implicit or explicit challenge to their wellbeing, safety or health. Workplace violence usually happens in several distinct forms, that are depicted in wide range of contexts (Kvas & Seljak, 2014).Further, it is shown that perception of the degree and type of violence differs among people and impacts the reporting of the violence incidents.

References

Alkorashy, H. A. E., & Al Moalad, F. B. (2016). Workplace violence against nursing staff in a Saudi university hospital. International nursing review, 63(2), 226-232. https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12242

Kvas, A., & Seljak, J. (2014). Unreported workplace violence in nursing. International nursing review, 61(3), 344-351. https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12106

Üzar-Özçetin, Y. S., Tee, S., & Erkan, M. (2020). A reputational risk for the profession: Workplace violence toward nursing students. Collegian. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2020.01.001