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4036-20: The Impact of a Nurse-led Multidisciplinary Leadership Group on Workplace Violence

This presentation highlights how a multidisciplinary violence workgroup developed quality improvement initiatives that showed positive outcomes in violence-risk identification/communication, staff education, patient care and staff support. Nurses will gain thought-provoking information about practice changes that strengthen staff and patient safety in the inpatient psychiatric setting.

Presenters:  Georgia G. Rosenblatt, MS, APRN, PMHCNS-BC; Danielle M. Michalak, MSN, RN

Disclosures:  The presenters and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label use of medications will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  44 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcome:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

• Identify how patient-to-staff violence impacts nursing care in psychiatric settings, and describe quality improvement initiatives that improve patient and staff safety.  

Keywords: Workplace Violence, Unit Safety, Patient Safety, Staff Safety, Multidisciplinary Workgroup 

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
0.75 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 34th Annual Conference

The contact hours for this session expire:  November 30, 2023

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