Measures needed to tackle rising threat of violence against doctors
The AMA media release focused on the Government and Hospitals to introduce measures supporting Doctors against an increase of workplace violence (occupational violence).
The article provides detail of medical staff who are attacked suffer physical injuries, serious harm and death, psychological impacts of increased stress, sleep disturbances, moral injury, anxiety, anger, decreased job dissatisfaction, more leave days, presenteeism, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The article calls on Government and Hospitals to lead change and implementation of risk management systems to reduce impact and instances of workplace violence, investment in reporting, monitoring and evaluation of risk prevention and management strategies, across the healthcare security and risk management systems.