Advances in Contemporary Nursing and Interpersonal Violence
Special Issue of Contemporary Nurse
Volume 21 Issue 2 May 2006
xii+164 pages ISBN 978-0-9750436-6-0
Editors:
Anne McMurray
Peel Health Campus Chair in Nursing
Murdoch University, Mandurah, WA
Debra Jackson
School of Nursing, Family and Community Health
University of Western Sydney, NSW
The extent and impact of workplace aggression in the health care sector is widely acknowledged by the International Labour Office, International Council of Nurses and World Health Organisation & Public Services International. In Australia and New Zealand State and National Occupational Health and Safety requirements have been amended to include provision of a safe and harassment free workplace. Industry standards recommend that all staff undertake compulsory training for dealing with potentially violent and aggressive situations, particularly in Mental Health (Victorian Dept of Human Services, Health and Community Services Union, Australian Nursing Federation & Victorian Healthcare Industry Association 2003).
Gerry Farrell, Head, School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Tasmania
The decision by Contemporary Nurse to devote an entire issue to the subject of violence against nurses is a sober acknowledgment of the significance of violence as an occupational hazard for nurses. The serious nature of many attacks, and the potentially catastrophic effects of violence on victims, their families, and ultimately on the nursing profession is of grave concern to all nurses. Finding solutions to such an intransigent problem requires serious public debate and it is therefore appropriate that such a discussion be conducted with an informed discourse from the profession so often targeted. As the English philosopher Francis Bacon famously observed: 'Knowledge is power'. It is to be hoped that through dissemination of knowledge in this issue that the power to arrest the insidious march of violence in nursing is generated.
Fiona Armstrong on behalf of the Australian Nursing Federation
In one reader, Advances in Contemporary Nursing and Interpersonal Violence provides leading opinion pieces, reviews and new research perspectives on intimate partner violence and workplace violence, its impacts on nurses, their families and the community.
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