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Improving Workplace Violence Reporting Among Nurses

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Commitment: Long-term

Connection method: Virtual

Open to Fraser – Vancouver Coastal

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We want to test an electronic reporting system for workplace violence against nurses and care aides within the medicine department at St. Paul’s Hospital as part of a Knowledge Translation Challenge project.

Our goal is to make it easier to make a report and increase the number of reports. These reports will help decide the effectiveness of current workplace violence prevention measures and inform workplace safety reporting procedures. Patient engagement is needed to provide feedback on any public-facing posters and to share stories or experiences of workplace violence in an acute care hospital.

Patients or family members of a patient may have experienced violence from other patients (including physical or verbal violence) or have witnessed violence against nurses and care aides. Patient or family member engagement can inform planning, delivery, and evaluation of this project to improve staff safety and patient care quality.

Start of engagement: March 2025
5 check-ins:
1. Meet and greet to discuss interest in the project.
2. Meet together with team and project. Patient partner can share stories and experiences related to workplace violence.
3. Review any project materials that will be visible to the public in the hospital (example: posters advertising the electronic reporting system).
4. Share preliminary data on reporting rates and what type of violence is being reported and get thoughts from the patient partner.
5. Email results and findings when project is completed in June 2027.

Level of Engagement

This opportunity is at the level of Consult on the IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation.

Eligibility

  • Willing & comfortable to share health care experiences in a group setting
  • Specific health care experiences [details below]
  • Have access to technology and the internet to participate in the engagement opportunity
  • Comfortable using technology to attend online/virtual meetings
  • The time to participate in the engagement opportunity
  • Patients or family members of a patient who have experienced violence from other patients (including physical or verbal violence) or have witnessed violence against nurses and care aides in acute care hospitals.
Patient Partners ARE NOT required to be PVN members to participate in this engagement opportunity.

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Jenny Lee Clinical Nurse Educator, Acute Medicine | St. Paul's Hospital, Providence Health Care (778) 235-7447 jlee80@providencehealth.bc.ca

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Shannon Griffin

Leader, Patient and Family Centred Care in Fraser Health

Shannon Griffin

Recently, a PVN Patient Advisor asked healthcare partners, “What are we learning from patients, families, and others thus far during this pandemic?”. This is an excellent question and one to ask ourselves daily.