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5 Ways to Reduce Horizontal Violence in Healthcare

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Did you know that while only 10% of professionals across industries report experiencing disruptive behavior in the workplace, healthcare professionals report rates that are three times higher? Horizontal violence refers to non-physical, hostile, aggressive, or harmful behavior directed at colleagues in the workplace.

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The Six Domains of Health Care Quality — New Considerations

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Healthcare organizations have been using a quality improvement framework consisting of six attributes — safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable — for decades. But new research has expanded the framework to include elements that address more recent challenges in healthcare and in society.

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It’s Time To End Suicide Stigma

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As it relates to suicide, public stigma refers to perceptions of family, friends, healthcare providers, and other individuals in someone’s life. Self-stigma: This is defined as the internalization of negative stereotypes. Often there is worry that talking about mental health and suicide will cause more harm than help.

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Member Voices: My Journey to Clinical Social Work

Social Work Blog

Our priority was to address how racism, patriarchy and heteronormativity deeply harms Detroiters and the marginalized body’s ability to feel safe, secure, and have a right to exist. In the spirit of collaboration, she invited a small group of facilitators, herbalists, health and healing activists to help dream up this offering together.

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What Is Lateral Violence in Nursing?

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As surprising as it may be, healthcare professionals don’t always treat each other with kindness and respect. In fact, research suggests that lateral violence in healthcare is a serious issue. Why does lateral violence occur in healthcare? healthcare organizations can’t afford to lose nurses to this preventable problem.

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5 Reasons Children Bully and How Parents Can Help

KVC

We see the impact of that as bullies and those they bully are twice as likely to self-harm and experience suicidal behavior. A bully is someone that deliberately acts out verbally or physically in an aggressive manner towards others with the intent to cause harm, fear, or distress. Words can hurt. What Defines a Bully?

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7 Nurse Recruitment and Retention Strategies

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Nurses have one of the most in-demand roles in healthcare, and with a 6% projected job growth rate through 2031, the demand for nurses to fill both vacancies and new roles is only increasing. Maximizing nurse recruitment and retention is a challenge nearly every healthcare organization across the country is facing.