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What Can We Do About Healthcare Violence?

Become Informed

  • Engage the services of Stop Healthcare Violence for support, guidance and education.
  • Find out about legislation surrounding workplace violence, and why stricter laws are so critical.
  • Explore articles and resources surrounding healthcare violence.

Support Your Peers

  • Offer and ask…. offer support, and ask for support, with:
    • Reporting and logging the incident
    • Getting medical attention
    • Establishing and maintaining documentation
    • Filing criminal charges
    • Following-up with admin, police reports

Report All Incidents!

As declared by the Massachusetts Nurses Association and others, reporting is critical! Consider:

  •  Under-reporting is a chronic challenge, and can be a factor in exacerbating this epidemic.
  • Doing nothing enables and magnifies the misconception that it’s just part of the job or simply ok.
  • Reporting all incidents of threat, assault, stalking and harassment raises awareness of this issue.
  • Cultivating awareness of healthcare violence and bringing about drastic modification in our beliefs, practices, policies and legislation is critical.
    • When nothing is done – no reporting, follow up, charges filed or investigation – there is no change and the danger will continue to exacerbate.
  • PREVENTION! While there’s no way to change what happened to you, by reporting the attack you can help stop it from happening to someone else.
  • Reporting may serve as a deterrent if prosecution becomes a routine consequence of violent behavior.

Violent acts should be consistently documented as part of the Public Record, no matter where they occur.

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