Risk of Violence among Nurses in Emergency Departments at Baghdad City Hospitals: The Mediating Role of the Work Environment (original) (raw)

2021, Medico-Legal Update

Background: Workplace violence is a problem of international healthcare among the workers in alldepartments of the healthcare systems, but more severe at the emergency departments.Nurses in theemergency departments are working on the front lines of violence. This study aims to examine risk ofviolence among nurses in the emergency departments and to find out the association between nurses’ age,years of working in nursing, years of working in emergency departments, work hours, violent events bypatients, violent events by coworkers, likelihood of exposure to violence in the future, work environment,intention to leave the job, and risk of violence.Method: A descriptive predictive study design has been carried out.A non-probability (convenience) sampleof (380) nurses from the emergency departments of (12) hospitals in Baghdad city center were selected toparticipate in the study.Data were collected through a self-report instrument that includesnurses socio-demographic data, theemployment ...