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Virtual Grand Rounds: Mitigating Workplace Violence: Turning the Challenge into an Opportunity

Silver Hill Hospital
In this presentation, Dr. Delaney suggests that our reporting and tracking of aggression and violence should move away from linking incidents to patient-related behavior and toward consideration of potential antecedents related to service factors such as staffing, bed overload, or missed care.

As a result of participating in this activity, learners should be able to:

Describe the impact of organizing staff work around risk reduction and a belief in preventable harm.
Explain how violence reduction strategies might prime a preoccupation with risk aversion that supersedes a focus on engagement and patient-centered care.
Discuss an alternative focus of work site analysis related to violence and the utility of patterning health service factors related to violence.