Document Type : Original Article
Author
Assistant Professor in Community Health Nursing School of Nursing and Midwifery Zahedan University of Medical Sciences
Abstract
Background: Workplace violence is a widespread phenomenon with a cultural and context-based nature. Understanding the different dimensions of this phenomenon is essential to developing interventions to prevent and manage workplace violence. Accordingly, the present study aimed to analyze the concept of workplace violence against Iranian nurses.
Methods: A hybrid model developed based on Schwartz-Barcott and Kim’s approach was used to analyze the concept of workplace violence. In the theoretical phase, the literature was reviewed using Walker and Avant's approach, and in the fieldwork phase, 18 unstructured in-depth interviews were conducted with clinical nurses, and the collected data were analyzed using the conventional content analysis method. The participants were selected through purposive sampling and the data were analyzed using Graneheim and Lundman’s approach. During the final analytical phase, the findings from the theoretical and fieldwork phases were integrated to provide a comprehensive definition of the concept of workplace violence.
Results: Workplace violence against nurses involves a range of behaviors or actions that threaten human dignity and professional reputation with or without purpose, which are applied in the workplace or related situations by the patient, caregiver, manager, or colleague, against an individual or group of nurses and is perceived as nurses' exposure to physical violence, psychological violence, honor insult, or religious-ethnic insult, whether explicit or implicit, intermittent or continuous, and mild to severe.
Conclusion: The findings from this study can be used to develop a tool to measure workplace violence and design interventions to prevent and manage workplace violence.
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