If you are a nurse leader committed to mitigating violence in the workplace, this guide from The Nurses Legacy Institute is for you! It covers HOW TO: ❤️🩹 Create a culture of safety 🚫 Proactively prevent violence 🫂 Connect and advocate with stakeholders 🚨 Anticipate high-risk challenges 🏥 Design safe environment 🧰 Adopt tools and technology to mitigate harm ⤵️ What this article does not cover 🙅 🙋♀️ Insights from practicing nurse leaders shared in past CNO Roundtables 🗣️ Confidential conversations about real-world incidents and experiences 🧑⚕️ 👨⚕️ 👩⚕️ A sense of community you won't find via academia or the literature ⤵️ We encourage you to use this resource by ⤵️ 🔂 Saving it and coming back to reference it as many times as you need to ✅ Checking off approaches you have/haven't adopted and revisiting strategy 💰 Submitting financial proposals to secure cutting edge tools and tech ⤵️ Continue the Conversation 💭 ⚕️ Repost to your network to give nurse leaders this aggregated resource 🔊 Sound off below on what works (& what doesn't) based on your experience 🖥️ Join our next CNO Roundtable on finances(follow us for future event alerts) P.S. See comments for ways to advocate for legislative protections for nurses!
Sign up for alerts about the “Save healthcare workers act” (proposed legislation introduced this year in the Senate). https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1600
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Contact your representative in support of the “Safety from violence for healthcare workers act” or H.R. 2584, which remains stalled. https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Send a letter via American Nurses Association in support of the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, or H.R. 2531/S. 1232 https://ana.quorum.us/campaign/WPV119th/