Sentences with phrase «care workplace violence»

In the Assembly, Lancman authored the Safe Patient Handling Act (A. 1370B / S.2470 B) as well as a report on the subject, authored the Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention Act (A. 4856), and helped ensure safe working conditions at St. Barnabas hospital in the Bronx, which was cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for inadequately protecting employees from violence.

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«We know that workplace violence disproportionately impacts health care and social service providers,» said Bride, who is director of the School of Social Work in the university's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.

Examining both real - life stories and precedent - setting legal cases, director Kamala Lopez uncovers how outdated and discriminatory attitudes inform and influence seemingly disparate issues, from workplace harassment to domestic violence, rape and sexual assault to the foster care system, and the healthcare conglomerate to the judicial system.

Who cares about 8 % unemployment, the flatlined economy, abandoning Americans to die in Bengahzi, Joe Biden's buffonery, fast & furious, national debt, USA credit downgrade, trillion dollar annual budget deficits, deliberate sabotage of the coal industry, ACORN, failed foreign policy (Iran with nuclear weapons, bowing to China, stiffing U.K and Israel, etc) abysmal people judgement (Biden again, plus H. Clinton, T, Geithner; K. Sebelius; E. Holder, etc), stopping the pipeline for Canadian oil, blocking drilling in US land, secret «kill lists», ObamaCare, attacking religious liberty, you didn't build that, unseemly chest - pounding over bin Laden (GM is dying but bin Laden is coming back to life), 20 years of Jeremiah Wright, failure of crony capitalism deals with Solyndra - NextEra — Ener1 — Solar Trust etc., over 100 rounds of golf in 1st 3 yrs, choom, the Chevy Volt, insisting the Ft Hood massacre was «workplace violence», secret college transcripts, «clearly the Boston police acted stupidly», disregard of the Simpson - Bowles budget recommendations (after commissioning their work), and lots more irrelevant stuff.

The Joint Commission's recent alert now adds additional incentives for health care organizations to implement and update workplace violence prevention programs.

Yet OSHA has not proposed an explicit regulation applicable to workplace violence in health care and instead has relied upon the General Duty Clause when issuing citations.

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This includes closing the gender pay gap, increasing access to affordable child care and tackling the poverty facing disadvantaged women including single mothers, Indigenous women, older women, women and girls with disabilities, and women facing domestic violence and sexual harassment in the workplace and community.

Appropriate topics may include: special populations; diagnosis, assessment, advanced counseling for individuals, groups, or families; theory, research, and practice in addictions; practice or policies relating to addictions; scientifically supported models of treatment, recovery, relapse prevention; continuing care for addiction and substance - related problems; dual diagnosis issues; addictions and domestic violence, violence in the workplace, criminal activity, sexual abuse, child abuse and neglect; counselor wellness, and professional development.

PTSD symptoms and the full range of criteria comprising a PTSD diagnosis have been observed in rescue and ambulance personnel.12 13 Healthcare workers typically are exposed to two types of trauma in the hospital setting: direct (personal involvement in traumatic events through confrontations resulting in their own traumatic experiences, e.g., workplace violence) and indirect (non-personal involvement in traumatic events through others» confrontations resulting in other people's traumatic experiences, e.g., witnessing other people's direct experiences of workplace violence, caring for dying patients «and threats of severe injury or exposure to trauma).4 14 — 16 In the present study, a traumatic event refers to a healthcare worker's exposure to physical violence in the workplace.

Sample Topics (classes, seminars, forums): Learned Optimism, Stress Management, Raising Resilient Children, School Bullying and Violence, Parenting, Co-Parenting and Blending Families, Effective Anger Management for Youth, Taking Care of Self: Preventing Employee Burnout, Embracing Cultural Diversity in the Workplace, Recognizing and Preventing Hostile Work Environments.