Resources

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

Risk Assessment and Tools for Identifying Patients at High Risk for Violence and Self-Harm in the Emergency Department

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)