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The American Nurses Association (ANA) has come out firmly in its endeavors to persuade the national government to pass severe and enforceable regulations shielding attendants from working environment brutality. As indicated by (“ANA Applauds Passage of Workplace Violence Prevention Legislation,” 2019), ANA President Ernest Grant Ph.D., RN, FAAN expressed “Attendants face changing levels of physical and obnoxious attack in medical care settings the nation over. This isn’t OK. Attendants ought never to need to fear for their security when they convey patient consideration. Working environment societies that deter attendants from detailing rates of savagery inspired by a paranoid fear of reprisal and counter keep on being at the core of this issue. Any boundaries that hinder announcing hamper progress to address work environment savagery notwithstanding the presence of “zero resistance” approaches.”

Workplace violence against nurses and other healthcare workers is a real and dangerous problem. According to Lenaghan et al., (2018), “approximately 11,000 healthcare workers a year are victims of assault, and over 50 percent of ER nurses are verbally or physically assaulted regularly” (p.7). According to Phillips (2016), “health care workplace violence is an underreported, ubiquitous, and persistent problem that has been tolerated and largely ignored” (p. 1661). Unfortunately “there is currently no federal legislation that protects health care workers from workplace violence; however, 36 states have adopted legislative solutions that make violence against nurses and other health care personnel unlawful”.Hopefully, federal regulations on workplace violence towards healthcare workers are in reach.

Due to campaigning endeavors by the ANA, California Nurses Association (CNA), and other state bunches as per Harris-Taylor (2019), HR 1309, The Federal Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, has been passed by the House and is anticipating entry in the Senate. Presently, HR 1309 is anticipating a section in the Senate before going to the President to sign into regulation. All attendants ought to get behind this regulation by joining the ANA or their state’s nursing association and contacting their lawmakers.

References

ANA Applauds Passage of Workplace Violence Prevention Legislation. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.nursingworld.org/news/news-releases/2019-news releases/ana-applauds-passage-of-workplace-violence-prevention-legislation/

Harris-Taylor, M. (2019). Facing escalating workplace violence, hospital employees have had enough. Washington: NPR. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/2205070626?accountid=100141

Lenaghan, P. A., Cirrincione, N. M., & Henrich, S. (2018). Preventing emergency department violence through design. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 44(1), 7–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jen.2017.06.012

Phillips, J. P. (2016). Workplace violence against health care workers in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine, 374(17), 1661–1669. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmra1501998