title: Opening the door to improve visiting nurse safety: an initiative to collect and analyze protection practices and policies.
abstract: The number of home healthcare clinicians who have been harmed by workplace violence as the direct result of patient care is not known. An initiative in the form of a 36-question survey was sent to the nurse administrators of 156 visiting nurse organizations in the United States. The purpose was to describe workplace violence policies and practices and explore what agencies are doing to protect visiting nurses.
authors: Princeton Hospice, Princeton, NJ, USA. joymakerrn@optonline.net
authors: Ann
authors: A
authors: Mathiews
authors: Susan
authors: S
authors: Salmond
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D064691:Nurses, Community Health / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016134:Organizational Policy; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000458:organization & administration; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012449:Safety / Q000592:standards; D064450:Workplace Violence / Q000517:prevention & control