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About Workplace Violence
Duration: 0.50 Origination: Feb 2022 Expiration: Dec 2027
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As a healthcare worker, you are in regular contact with residents, visitors, and coworkers. When harassment or bullying occurs in the workplace, the impact on staff and visitors creates a troubled workplace. Facility operations are also disrupted with long-reaching effects. Workplace violence refers clearly to threats or actual use of physical force against a person in the workplace. In recent years, more healthcare workers have assumed a greater risk of exposure to workplace violence. In this course, you will learn how to spot, prevent, and respond to workplace violence. 

Learning Objectives

Define workplace violence.

Identify steps to survive a hostile encounter.

Determine when and how to report workplace violence.