title: The New Age of Bullying and Violence in Health Care: Part 2: Advancing Professional Education, Practice Culture, and Advocacy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article will discuss new regulations and professional guidance addressing bullying and workplace violence including addressing recent organizational initiatives to support the health care workforce; reviewing how professional education has historically contributed to a culture of bullying across health care; and exploring how academia is shifting the culture of professional practice through innovative education programming.
  Applicable to all health care sectors where case management is practiced.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This article is the second of two on this topic. Part 2 focuses on how traditional professional education has been cited as a contributing factor to bullying within and across disciplines. Changes to educational programming will impact the practice culture by enhancing collaboration and meaningful interactions across the workforce. Attention is also given to the latest regulations, professional guidelines, and organizational initiatives.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Workplace bullying and violence have contributed to health care become the most dangerous workplace sector. This is a concerning issue that warrants serious attention by all industry stakeholders.Traditional professional education models have created a practice culture that promotes more than hinders workplace bullying and violence in the industry. Changes to both academic coursework and curricula have shifted these antiquated practice paradigms across disciplines. New care delivery modes and models have fostered innovative care and treatment perspectives. Case management is poised to facilitate the implementation of these perspectives and further efforts to promote a safe health care workplace for patients and practitioners alike.
authors.affiliation: Ellen Fink-Samnick, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, CCM, CRP, is principal of EFS Supervision Strategies, LLC. She is an industry expert who empowers health care's Transdisciplinary workforce through professional speaking, mentoring, and consultation. Known and respected as, "The Ethical Compass of Case Management," she is a popular presenter and esteemed author with more than 60 publications across diverse media. With Teresa Treiger, Ellen is the coauthor of the book COLLABORATE® for Professional Case Management: A Universal Competency-Based Paradigm, first edition, published by Wolters Kluwer. She is also author of the Ethics, Social Media and Electronic Communication chapter for the Core Curriculum for Case Management, 3rd edition, to be published in Spring 2016.
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fink-Samnick
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D058445:Bullying; D019090:Case Management; D004496:Education, Continuing; D004517:Education, Professional / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D014481:United States; D064450:Workplace Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*