title: Reducing violence against nurses: the violence prevention community meeting.
abstract: Research was undertaken to validate the efficacy of a new, nurse-led treatment, the Violence Prevention Community Meeting (VPCM), for reducing patient violence on an acute-care inpatient psychiatry unit. Nursing staff members carried event counters and recorded verbal and physical violence as it occurred over the 20-week study. Significant decreases in patient violence were found across day, evening, and night shifts for pre-treatment vs. treatment and pre-treatment vs. post-treatment comparisons. For the day shift, when twice-weekly VPCM treatment took place, violent incidents decreased 89% from pre-treatment to treatment and 57% from pre-treatment to post-treatment.
authors.affiliation: Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, (151B), Bedford, MA 01730, USA. marilyn.lanza@va.gov
authors.forename: Marilyn L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Lanza
authors.forename: Jill
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rierdan
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Forester
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Zeiss
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D013808:Therapeutic Community; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*