Background Emergency departments are the services with the highest risk of violence for
nurses. Reports of violence in health care have increased exponentially in the last decade …

Objective Reports of violence in health care are continuously increasing. Globally there are
attempts to manage this phenomenon. However, while risk factors have been identified …

Background Most existing research on medical clowns in health care services has
investigated their usefulness mainly among child health consumers. In this research we …

Background Nursing staff, especially in violence-prone emergency departments (ED), are at
high risk of burnout. Frequently experienced violence is expected to have a strong impact on …

We spend a substantial part of our daily life waiting, and unfortunately, wait time can fuel
aggressive tendencies. Our study examines the relationship between wait time, perceived …

Patients enter the healthcare space shouldering a lot of personal stress. Concurrently,
health care providers and staff are managing their own personalstressors as well as …

Workplace violence (WPV) in health care settings is an emerging issue worldwide. Type I
and Type II WPV are not uncommon and it has significant physical and psychosocial …

Chronic stress is a ubiquitous problem shouldered by many people worldwide. Although the
stressors are myriad (eg, loneliness, finances, health, discrimination), the corporal response …

Introduction Emergency departments are extremely vulnerable to workplace violence, and
emergency nurses are frequently exposed to workplace violence. We developed workplace …

Queuing is still a fundamental function of how many businesses operate, yet there is not a
clear understanding to impact the queuing environment to increase the amount of time an …