Hospitals can help nurses prevent violence

Massachusetts hospital nurses have developed violence-prevention protocols


Massachusetts hospital nurses have developed violence-prevention protocols that can help reduce violence, according to an article on the Fierce Network website.

The nurses collaborated with the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) in the 1990s to develop a prevention plan.

MNA eventually introduced stronger contract wording that protected against workplace violence specifically.

Provisions included ID badges that only identify nurses by their title and first names.

Read the article.

 

 



August 26, 2016


Topic Area: Security


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