VIOLENCE AGAINST NURSES IN WORKING HOURS IN TURKEY

Objective: To investigate the frequency of the violence exposure, reasons, types ofviolence and the nurses’ attitude towards it.Method: This study was carried out with 460 nurses working in the hospitals inZonguldak, Turkey. Data were collected with a questionnaire form and were evaluatedby mean, percentage and chi-square tests.Results: The nurses experience violence and the most frequent type of violence isverbal abuse with a 79.1%. Female, married, nurses in 28-37 age-group, graduate ofassociate degree and nurses working in services had more violence experience. Nursesworking in state hospitals encounter violence more frequently than nurses workingresearch hospitals. Nurses often encounter violence in day-shift and weekday. Nursesmostly abused by relative of the patients, patients and physicians.Conclusion: This study shows that gender, marital status, educational status, age,institute and working degree have influence on exposure to violence of nurses.

VIOLENCE AGAINST NURSES IN WORKING HOURS IN TURKEY Keywords:

Nurse , violence , hospital , working period