{"title":"Appropriate elements of a program for preventing violence against healthcare staff.","authors":"Richard D Sem","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Violence against healthcare staff members far exceeds the national rate of occupational violence and is never part of the job, the author says. In this article, he lists measures to consider for effectively pre- venting and mitigating as- saultive and threatening purposeful behavior by pa- tients, family members, and outsiders.</p>","PeriodicalId":73772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare protection management : publication of the International Association for Hospital Security","volume":" ","pages":"44-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of healthcare protection management : publication of the International Association for Hospital Security","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Violence against healthcare staff members far exceeds the national rate of occupational violence and is never part of the job, the author says. In this article, he lists measures to consider for effectively pre- venting and mitigating as- saultive and threatening purposeful behavior by pa- tients, family members, and outsiders.