Creator:

Statistics Canada

Geography:

North America > Canada

Categories:

• Healthcare Practitioners

Tags:

• abuse
• hospitals
• long term care facilities
• nurses
• resource allocation
• violence
• workload
• workplace conditions

Date:

2009

URL:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2009002/article/10835-eng.pdf

Annotation:

Numerous studies indicate that health care providers, particularly nurses, face a high risk of on-the-job abuse from patients. This article examines physical and emotional abuse from patients in nurses working in hospitals or longterm care facilities.  Data are from the 2005 National Survey of the Work and Health of Nurses. Cross-tabulations were used to examine abuse in relation to personal characteristics of the nurse, job characteristics, and workplace climate factors.  Multiple logistic regression modeling was used to examine abuse in relation to staffing and resource adequacy and relations among colleagues, controlling for personal and job characteristics.