Understanding The Clinical Aggression Against Emergency Nurses: A Narrative review

Abstract

Workplace aggression is a significant problem in the region and internationally. Aggression behaviors against health care professionals in the emergency departments have become very frequent and risky. Emergency nurses are the most at-risk group among all the professionals who have to manage patients’ aggression or violence. Emergency nurses should practice and deliver nursing care in a positive, therapeutic, and safe environment. Hospital management and nursing administration should provide emergency nurses with the required training on aggression management strategies to ensure their safety. Most of the current aggression training programs and guidelines concentrate on physical management and crisis intervention. There is deficiency of the specialized aggression training programs that concentrate on the de-escalation and pre-escalation preventive strategies .