Open AccessThoughts on aggressive acting out matrices in ER and potential prevention acts
Author(s) -
Laura Nardi,
Roberto Recupero
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
emergency care journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2282-2054
pISSN - 1826-9826
DOI - 10.4081/ecj.2009.5.32
Subject(s) - medicine , multidisciplinary approach , work (physics) , medical emergency , face (sociological concept) , suicide prevention , nursing , public relations , risk analysis (engineering) , poison control , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , social science , sociology , political science
Hospitals must develop programs to prevent aggressive events on work. It is necessary to create multidisciplinary work teams to identify risk factors and to elaborate strategies for prevention and management. It is essential to make health workers aware and adequately trained to face the risk to be victim of violence. They should know strategies to reduce the risk too. Hospital organisations must activate precise procedures to assure sanitary, psychological and legal support for whom has suffered violence at work