University Libraries’ Excellence in Information Literacy Awardee
Student: Holly Bidwell
Advisor: Dr. Khalid Almasloukh
Violence toward emergency room nurses is becoming more prevalent and leads to nursing burnout. This can impact a nurse’s mental health and their ability to properly care for their patients. The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects that workplace violence protection programs have on decreasing the amount of violence in the emergency room. A literature review was conducted to collect qualitative and quantitative studies using the databases Science Direct, Cochrane Library, and PubMed. The results of the five articles were inconclusive. There was no correlation between violence protection programs and a decrease in patient violence. In conclusion, more in-person and scenario-based studies need to be conducted over a longer period of time in order to see if violence protection programs can be used to decreased patient violence on emergency room nurses.