NURSES’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS WORKPLACE VIOLENCE IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS AT Al-HILLA TEACHING HOSPITALS

Introduction: According to the World Health Organization's definition, workplace violence can take many different forms. These include physical assault, murder, verbal abuse, bullying and mobbing, sexual and racial harassment, and psychological stress. this study aimed to assess the nurses’ attitudes towards workplace violence at emergency department and to identify the relationship between nurses’ attitudes toward workplace violence at emergency department with their socio demographic characteristics.

Methods: descriptive design was conducted in Babylon province at Imam Sadiq and Hilla Teaching hospital. A non-probability "convenience" sample had been consisted of (80) nurses of both genders. Data was gathered using the prepared and adopted questionnaire as well as the self-report technique with the Arabic version of the questionnaire.

Results:  The results showed that 84% of the study sample their age between 20–25 age, related to educational status most of study sample (41.4) were diploma. most of participants (69.8%) have (1-5) years of experience. Most of the participants 53.4% thinking that the working in an emergency is tiring. A statistically significant relationship at (P-value < 0.05) exists between the attitude level and educational achievement. The attitudes are positive especially with bachelor's, master and doctorate degree in nursing, while there is no significant relationship with (age, gender, years of experience, and residency) in p. value > 0.05.

         Conclusion: The current study concluded that the current findings revealed that the emergency unit’s nurses have negative attitudes toward workplace violence in emergency units.