Just as healthcare workers are frustrated and burned out, so are patients who often have to wait for long periods of time for care in overcrowded waiting rooms or in patient rooms when clinicians are ...
Empathy-driven strategies, scenario-based training, and advanced technologies like AI can prevent and de-escalate workplace ...
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 ...
San Diego internist David B. Bittleman, MD, was finishing an appointment with a patient when the man's caregiver slipped Bittleman a note as the patient walked out of the room. "Call me tomorrow," the ...
August 12, 2025 - The healthcare industry has long been plagued by violence against health workers and patients. The problem is perhaps most prevalent in hospital settings with heavy patient volumes ...
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, ...
About 88 percent of working medical professionals have had a violent interaction with a patient in the last year, according to a recent survey from Medscape of 247 employed medical workers, including ...
Every day in Minnesota, on average, one or two hospital employees are violently injured at work so severely that they need to ...
The worsening violence in health care settings is presenting providers with a vexing dilemma: How to maintain safety and security for staff and patients without creating unwelcoming, closed ...
The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is warning hospitals that they must protect their employees and patients from violence that is increasingly ...
A pair of new healthcare workforce surveys outline widespread reports of discrimination, racism and workplace violence perpetuated by patients and coworkers alike. Among the findings were ...