An observational study of associations between nurse behaviour and violence in psychiatric hospitals

摘要: A cyclical model of violence to psychiatric nurses is proposed in this paper and a partial test the reported. The suggests that stress induced by exposure leads impaired staff performance adoption behaviours which make re-occurrence more likely. We tested proposal certain (e.g. expressing verbal hostility) are associated with an increased risk assault observing nurse-patient interaction on 12 wards (n = 103 nurses). physical (1) assaulted staff, (2) violent wards, (3) grades experience high levels assault, were compared those respective low groups. There was some evidence association between patterns violence. conclude discussing implications for nursing practice. Language: en