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Question 1: The most common type of workplace violence in healthcare settings is …

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Type 3: Worker-on-Worker Type 4: Personal Type 2: Patient/Client/Visitor Type 1: Criminal Intent

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Question 2: Nurses often fail to report incidents of workplace violence because …

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Violence is accepted as "part of the job." Nurses often fear being blamed for doing something wrong. Nurses believe that some patients cannot be held accountable for their actions. There is no discernable benefit to reporting.

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Question 3: Statistics about workplace violence are often confusing and difficult to reconcile due to …

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Most incidents are unintentional and shouldn't be reported in the first place. A pervasive belief that nothing will change or be done about it anyway, so why report? The different criteria and sampling methodologies used by various reporting agencies.

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