Impact of Patient-Engaged Video Surveillance on Nursing Workforce Safety: Patient Aggression/Violence

Conclusions: Patient-engaged video surveillance is an effective method to track and trend patient aggression toward nursing staff, increasing patient and nursing workforce safety. Because 99% of the patients who exhibited aggressive/violent behavior were not identified by RNs as at risk, organizations should consider adding violence risk tools as part of patients' admission assessment.
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research