Continue to support and seek to improve standars of nursing
accreditation focused on the preventionof and response to lateral
violence
Solutions by APNs
Confrontational Bahavior
Work place conflict
Repeated hostile or unwanted
conduct
Psychological Harassment
Environmental
Poor lighting
Lack of safety
Violent patients & family
Factors that contribute
Personal/individual
Mental illnesses
female gender workers
low sense of worth
drug & alcohol habits
Serve as organizational catalysts to establish institutional committees charged with the
responsibiliy of establishing no tolerance policies aimed at preventing and reducing horizontal
violence
Organizational
Lack of resources
Understaffing
low supervisor support
Nurses undervalued
intensive and sizable patient load
Management
vertical abuse
Managers lack skills & training
Managers ambivalent attitudes towards policies & procedures
Advocate for legislation that adddresses reasonable nurse-patient ratios.
Participate in the training of new nurses, ensuring that nurses are
empowered as they enter the health care workforce