Concept map for nursing 510

Horizontal Violence in Nursing

Continue to support and seek to improve standars of nursing accreditation focused on the preventionof and response to lateral violence
1. Solutions by APNs
Confrontational Bahavior
1. Work place conflict
  1. Repeated hostile or unwanted conduct
    1. Psychological Harassment
Environmental
1. Poor lighting
2. Lack of safety
3. Violent patients & family
4. Factors that contribute
Personal/individual
1. Mental illnesses
2. female gender workers
3. low sense of worth
4. drug & alcohol habits
Serve as organizational catalysts to establish institutional committees charged with the responsibiliy of establishing no tolerance policies aimed at preventing and reducing horizontal violence
Organizational
1. Lack of resources
2. Understaffing
3. low supervisor support
4. Nurses undervalued
5. intensive and sizable patient load
Management
1. vertical abuse
2. Managers lack skills & training
3. Managers ambivalent attitudes towards policies & procedures
Advocate for legislation that adddresses reasonable nurse-patient ratios.
Participate in the training of new nurses, ensuring that nurses are empowered as they enter the health care workforce

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