Health personnel, especially nurses, are often victims of workplace violence. Unfortunately, little is known about the nurses' experience of violence. This research was undertaken to explore accounts of workplace violence so as to make the dimensions of the nurses' experience visible and more fully understood. In this study, the nurses' experience of workplace violence emerged as a highly complex entity, deeply embedded in relationships and context. How nurses' perceive the contextual factors of the organization, their immediate work environment and their individual attributes were found to...
Health personnel, especially nurses, are often victims of workplace violence. Unfortunately, little is known about the nurses' experience of violence....