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 ...

Months after one patient stabbed another, Tewksbury Hospital nurses and health professionals picketed outside of the Tewksbury Public Library Monday to draw attention to an increasing number of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Michele Whaylen, a physicians assistant in the University of Iowa emergency room, poses for a portrait Friday, June 30 at her home in Iowa City. Violence against health care workers has seen a sharp ...

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, ...

Family medicine physician Kenneth Cheng, DO, was on-call at a local hospital when a nurse told him that a patient needing evaluation hated Asians. "I talked to him about whether he was okay seeing me ...