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Topic

ecurity in the workplace continues to remain a high priority for organizations, especially in light of increases in workplace violence. Conduct appropriate research to identify what are the main or most common types of workplace violence. Select 1 specific type of workplace violence or threat to employees, and provide effective solutions to this threat or violence. Support your work with solid research sources.

Classmates I

Workplace violence is associated with five categories that may take place within, or outside the company. There are Type I- Criminal Intent, Type II- Customer/Client, Type III- Worker on Worker, and Type IV- Personal/Relationship. Each category can cause significant damage to an employee and the organization without the proper guidelines and training put into action. This discussion will follow Type II and the ways employees can protect themselves and their customer or patient. OSHA states, “Acts of violence and other injuries is currently the third-leading cause of fatal occupational injuries in the United States.” (OSHA) Many healthcare workers feel as if workplace violence within patients come from the job, or they simply don’t report it because of the occurrence. “While 75% of nearly 25,000 workplace assaults occur annually in healthcare settings, only 30% of nurses and 26% of emergency department physicians have reported incidents of violence.” (Stephens, 2019) This article discusses how violence can come in different forms for healthcare workers, such as unreported attacks, verbal or physical attacks and how these violent attacks effects a persons morals. Being a Certified Nursing Assistant in a residential care facility, I was faced many challenges with patients especially if they weren’t used to the environment. Each employee should be notified of the policies, and procedures on violence prevention, as well as monthly safety training videos. Establishing a written zero-tolerance policy, educating staff, and conducting violence prevention programs are helpful tools in the healthcare setting. Employees who practice safety and are consistently monitoring their surroundings will prosper in patient safety and themselves, as well as the hospital providing a campaign or meetings for others to speak out on ways to improve this matter. 1 Peter 3:9 comes to mind, ” Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will grant you his blessing.”

References:

Stephens, W. (2019) “Violence Against Healthcare Workers: A Rising Epidemic” Retrieved from:https://www.ajmc.com/view/violence-against-healthc…

Osha. “Workplace Violence” Retrieved from: https://www.osha.gov/healthcare/workplace-violence

Classmates II

According to our textbook, “workplace violence is violent acts directed at someone at work or on duty.” (Sean Valentine, 2020) These types of threats can include but are not limited to physical assaults, threats, harassment, intimidation, and bullying. The most common types of workplace violence are criminal, customer, co-worker, and domestic. One specific category of violence I like to address is harassment, primarily sexual and bullying. I have been subject to this type of abuse by the customer and an ex-co-worker. In the past, I worked for a staffing company. I was a target of workplace violence by the customer and the ex-co-worker. The customer was doing the harassment while the ex-co-worker was initiating the abuse. The two worked together in the past. The ex-co-worker was a previous employee who was released from the company who had access to my data because he was my reporting manager. I was a target of humiliation, not just sexual (nude pictures of genitals and videos of self-masturbation) but also in terms of bullying by threatening to publish my personal information and circumstances as means of embarrassment. The company I had worked for was a start-up company, and I was new to the business. No actions were taking against neither as there was no human resource department in place at the time. I blocked the calls and text messages (generated from a private number) and eventually changed my phone number. I changed my commutes from work to home and vice versa for about six months. I was able to assume who the people were by the information provided in the verbal text messages. I put two and two together but had no proof. Again, I was new to the business, and being a victim of past domestic violence and newly divorced, I did not say anything to authorities at the time or the president of the company, in which there are laws protecting employees of this nature.

After leaving the start-up company, I started a new role at a reputable staffing company (with an HR department). I had learned of the policies, practices, protection laws, and solutions to this type of workplace violence.

During the six-month harassment, I continued to pray for protection for myself and peace for the ex-co-workers. As in Philippians 4:6-7, I prayed to God to work in my heart and for HIM to intervene on the ex- co-workers’ behalf and for he to know God and to find peace.

References

Holy Bible, New King James Version. (1982). Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

Sean Valentine, P. M. (2020). Human Resource Management. Boston: Cengage Learning Inc.