Translational models of workplace violence in health care.

Decision makers have little time to study literature on the prevention and management of workplace violence (WPV). In a health care workplace setting, identifying the person, stimulus, and environmental interactions that can lead to violence is a complicated process. Those in positions of leadership make decisions that affect many individuals, agencies, and communities. Often, they come from different professional backgrounds yet need ways of rapidly understanding concepts of violence that transcend their profession, training, or experience. Translational models (TMs) in WPV visually summarize and interprofessionally facilitate this understanding of concepts, enhancing the chances of more effective collaborative solutions to WPV. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how TM can be used in interprofessional settings to find effective solutions to reduce WPV.

Zero in on violence.

THE RECOGNITION of violence in the healthcare workplace as a potential threat to the welfare of nurses has focused largely on the prevention of violence. However, it is now accepted that although violence may be reduced, it will not be eliminated ( Bowie 1996 ), and interest has grown in how nurses and other healthcare workers exposed to assault, verbal abuse or other forms of violence can be supported.

Re-framing the problem of workplace violence directed towards nurses in mental health services in the UK: a work in progress.

BACKGROUND: Research consistently suggests nurses working in mental health settings are more likely to be assaulted than nurses in other settings. AIMS: Belated recognition of the issue in terms of social policy (Elston et al. 2006) has been accompanied by an as yet unexamined contest between conflicting 'frames' of the problem, which this paper seeks to make transparent. METHOD: Frame analysis. RESULTS: Two distinct 'master' frames are discussed: the 'individualizing' and the 'co-creationist'. CONCLUSIONS: The influence of these frames has influenced the nature of responses to the problem but the recent dominance of the individualizing frame is being challenged by the emergence, or perhaps re-emergence, of co-creationism.