Workplace Violence Nursing Health & Employment Outcomes: The 'Safe at Work' Study.

摘要

Workplace violence, including workplace intimate partner violence, has major long-term health and employment outcomes and affects nursing personnel in significant numbers. By affecting productivity, absenteeism and job satisfaction workplace violence also may significantly affect nursing personnel retention and therefore the nursing shortage. The overall purpose of this investigation was to identify individual, environmental and organizational risk and protective factors for negative health and employment outcomes from all forms of workplace violence, including intimate partner workplace violence, among nursing personnel.