Organizational Position Statements
ACEP Policy: Protection from Violence in the Emergency Department
ENA Position Statement: Violence and Its Impact on the Emergency Nurse
Additional Resources and White Papers
2018 Emergency Department Violence Survey Findings
Design Considerations for a Safer Emergency Department
Emergency Department Violence: An Overview and Compilation of Resources
Emergency Department Assessment Tool
Healthy Work Environment in the Emergency Care Setting
Hostile Workplace: Emergency Management of the Agitated Patient
Understanding Agitation: De-escalation (video)
Articles
A Safe Space: Violence Toward Emergency Department Providers Isn’t Just Part of the Job (ACEP Now)
Nothing Changes, Nobody Cares: Understanding the Experience of Emergency Nurses Physically or Verbally Assaulted While Providing Care (Journal of Emergency Nursing)
Run, Hide, Fight: How to React When There’s Gunfire in the Emergency Department (ACEP Now)
Workplace Violence Remains a Part of the Emergency Department (ACEP Now)
Workplace aggression as cause and effect: Emergency nurses’ experiences of working fatigued (International Emergency Nursing)
Podcasts
Dealing with the Agitated Patient (ACEP Frontline)
No Silence on ED Violence (ENA Podcast)