Chapter 35 - Diffusing the fuse - Violence in the emergency department

Always On EM - Mayo Clinic Emergency Medicine

Dr. Sarayna McGuire is an emergency physician who has been investigating workplace violence in the ED and in the prehospital setting. She and Dr. Casey Clements, who is the chief safety officer for Rochester Mayo Clinic campus talk with Venk and Alex about the violence in the emergency department. The scope of the problem is staggering, the impact ripples broadly into the community, and we all have the opportunity to intervene and change the trajectory of how life unfolds – learn the what, the why, and the how in this cant-miss chapter of Always on EM

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REFERENCES & LINKS

• Pompeii LA, Schoenfisch AL, Lipscomb HJ, Dement JM, Smith CD, Upadhyaya M. Physical assault, physical threat, and verbal abuse perpetrated against hospital workers by patients or visitors in six U.S. hospitals. Am J Ind Med. 2015 Nov;58(11):1194-204
• McGuire SS, Finley JL, Gazley BF, Mullan AF, Clements CM. The team is not okay: Violence in emergency departments across disciplines in a health system. West J Emerg Med. 2023 Feb 1;24(2):169-177
• Speroni KG, Fitch T, Dawson E, Dugan L, Atherton M. Incidence and cost of nurse workplace violence perpetrated by hospital patients or patient visitors. J Emerg Nurs. 2014 May;40(3):218-28
• McGuire SS, Mullan AF, Clements CM. Unheard victims: multidisciplinary incidence and reporting of violence in an emergency department. West J Emerg Med. 2021 May 7;22(3):702-709

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