Annamaria Bagnasco, Gianluca Catania, Nicola Pagnucci, Rosaria Alvaro, Giancarlo Cicolini, Alberto Dal Molin, Loreto Lancia, Maura Lusignani, Daniela Mecugni, Paolo Carlo Motta, Roger Watson, Mark Hayter, Fiona Timmins, Giuseppe Aleo, Francesca Napolitano, Alessio Signori, Milko Zanini, Loredana Sasso, Beatrice Mazzoleni
AIMS: To describe how workplace violence (WPV) is experienced by nurses in hospitals and community services and identify protective and risk factors. METHODS: An online cross-sectional national study was conducted from January to April 2021 in Italy. Hospitals and community services were involved in the study. The survey combined the adapted and validated Italian version of the Violence in Emergency Nursing and Triage (VENT) questionnaire, which explores the episodes of WPV experienced during the previous 12 months, the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) and some additional questions about staffing levels extracted from a previous RN4CAST study...
April 17, 2024: Journal of Clinical Nursing