Journal of Nursing and Health Studies

Violence against employees in nursing care in Slovenia

27^th Edition of World Congress on Nursing Education & Research
April 23-25, 2018 Rome, Italy

Branko Gabrovec

National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia

ScientificTracks Abstracts: J Nurs Health Stud

DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C1-002

Abstract

We are presenting results of 5 researches on violence on employees in nursing care. In this research we have included nursing employees in psychiatric nursing care, homes for the elderly, paramedic services, community nursing and drug addiction rehabilitation centers. Researches were carried out by means of quantitative, non-experimental research, with a questionnaire being used as the method for gathering data. Researches were carried out from year 2013 to 2016. Accumulated data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics, correlation, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Pearsonov �?2 test, Mann-Whitney U test and linear regression with statistical significance value of p<0.05. We have found a high exposure to violence of employees in nursing care from patients. In the greater extend they are exposed to verbal violence, often also to physical violence and sexual harassment. The highest prevalence can be observed at psychiatric nursing care. In the researched fields we have also found that a lateral violence in common. Research identifies issues of assuring safety and quality of treatment in the field of aggression. It is directed to the filed that is yet not covered by present regulative or work practice. Researches on the field of nursing care, which come in contact with aggressive patient, have yet not included wider circle of participles or discuss the need of additional functional training for employees

Biography

Branko Gabrovec, PhD, MSc is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Health Care, NIJZ. With 19 years of working experience at health care system and also as an Assistant Professor, he started his career in a psychiatric hospital, continued at community health care center and National Institute of Public Health. His research interests are in nursing, ageing, healthy ageing, frailty, quality and safety in health care. He is author of many scientific publications.

Email:branko.gabrovec@nijz.si