A tool to identify violent patients in medical and surgical wards was introduced in the Nov. 2011 issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. American researchers at Point Loma Nazarene University and ...

A study showed that more than 28% of patients who exhibited violent behavior continued exhibiting that violence in subsequent healthcare settings, often beginning out-of-hospital and continuing in the ...

A study led by Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic found that patient violence often begins in out-of-hospital settings and continues into the ED and other inpatient units. The study, published June 18 ...

About 88 percent of working medical professionals have had a violent interaction with a patient in the last year, according to a recent survey from Medscape of 247 employed medical workers, including ...

A multiracial team stabilizes an injured young adult woman in the hospital emergency room. Violent encounters in the emergency department are becoming a serious issue. This month, Ann W. Latner, JD, ...

The worsening violence in health care settings is presenting providers with a vexing dilemma: How to maintain safety and security for staff and patients without creating unwelcoming, closed ...

The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is warning hospitals that they must protect their employees and patients from violence that is increasingly ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - Violence against healthcare workers is not new to Arkansas, but this past summer, three major hospital systems in Northeast Arkansas reportedly had patients attacking their ...

Just days before Christmas 2024, a group of female teen patients broke into the nurse’s station and medication room at a psychiatric hospital in Raleigh, where they tore down parts of the ceiling, ...

Credit: Getty Images. There are 4 steps to avoid verbal conflicts that escalate to violence among unhoused patients: apologize, approve, applaud, and appease. Every Sunday, Reverend Thomas Hill, ...