Concept map for nursing 510

Horizontal Violence in Nursing

1. Continue to support and seek to improve standars of nursing accreditation focused on the preventionof and response to lateral violence

   • Solutions by APNs

2. Confrontational Bahavior

   • Work place conflict
     • Repeated hostile or unwanted conduct
       • Psychological Harassment

3. Environmental

   • Poor lighting
   • Lack of safety
   • Violent patients & family
   • Factors that contribute

4. Personal/individual

   • Mental illnesses
   • female gender workers
   • low sense of worth
   • drug & alcohol habits

5. Serve as organizational catalysts to establish institutional committees charged with the responsibiliy of establishing no tolerance policies aimed at preventing and reducing horizontal violence

6. Organizational

   • Lack of resources
   • Understaffing
   • low supervisor support
   • Nurses undervalued
   • intensive and sizable patient load

7. Management

   • vertical abuse
   • Managers lack skills & training
   • Managers ambivalent attitudes towards policies & procedures

8. Advocate for legislation that adddresses reasonable nurse-patient ratios.

9. Participate in the training of new nurses, ensuring that nurses are empowered as they enter the health care workforce