Not Part of the Job

How to Take a Stand Against Violence in the Work Setting

Jane Lipscomb, Matt London

• Publisher: Nursesbooks
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781558105959
• eBook ISBN: 9781558105973
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Nursing

Despite decades of attention to the issue of violence in the workplace by individuals and organizations across the health care spectrum, it is still a widespread problem that nurses face every day in their work environment. It's time we take a stand. Let's put an end to workplace violence. Designed to spark a conversation and provide actionable tactics to reduce workplace violence, "Not Part of the Job: How to Take a Stand Against Violence in the Work Setting" offers guidance to practicing nurses on how they can better protect themselves against a wide range of unacceptable behaviors. This thought-provoking, action-oriented publication: Outlines the factors that create barriers to efforts to reduce violence toward health care workers across a range of health care and social service settings. Offers strategies and tools that we have found effective in addressing and reducing these barriers. Provides steps that individual workers can take to make themselves safer while at work. Illustrates best practices and case studies from field experience in public sector agency settings such as psychiatric hospitals, institutional and community settings for the developmentally disabled, residential addiction treatment centers, juvenile and adult justice facilities, and community mental health settings. And much more. Not Part of the Job: How to Take a Stand Against Violence in the Work Setting also focuses on the critical importance of collective action and building partnerships among workers, patient advocates, administrators, security personnel and others in order to effect change at the organizational level. Nurses and other health care workers will find this book to be an invaluable resource in the move toward a safer workplace and improved patient care.

Table of contents

• Not Part of the Job
• Table of Contents
• About the Authors
• Chapter 1. Why this Book?
• Chapter 2. How Bad is the Problem?
• Chapter 3. What You and Your Employer Should Know About the Problem
• Chapter 4. What Do We Know About Risk Factors for Workplace Violence?
• Chapter 5. Worker Rights and Legal Protections
• Chapter 6. Regulations, Laws, and Voluntary Standards: How Can You Use Them to Your Advantage
• Chapter 7. Workplace Violence Prevention Program (WVPP): OSHA Guideline
• Chapter 8. Management Commitment and Employee Involvement
• Chapter 9. Worksite Analysis
• Chapter 10. Hazard Prevention and Contro
• Chapter 11. Training and Education
• Chapter 12. Recordkeeping and Program Evaluation
• Chapter 13. Working with Local Police and the District Attorney’s Offic
• Chapter 14. Exercising your OSHA Rights
• Chapter 15. Most of What We Know We Learned from Talking to Workers!
• Chapter 16. Special Case of Home Visiting by Community Health Workers
• Chapter 17. More on Activism
• Appendix A. Suggested Links and Resources
• Appendix B. APNA 2008 Report Recommendations
• Appendix C. States with OSHA State Plans
• Appendix D. The Joint Commission’s Suggested Actions
• Appendix E. State-Run Psychiatric Hospital Joint Labor–Management Committee (selected meeting minutes)
• Appendix F. Environmental Checklist: Violence Prevention Project
• Appendix G. Norfolk, MA District Attorney William R. Keating Report (excerpted) on Workplace Violence, 2007
• Appendix H. Sample OSHA Citation (Press Releases)
• Appendix I. Labor and Employment
• Appendix J. Baltimore Sun Op Ed 2013 (Jane Lipscomb)
• References
• Index
• Back Cover