The article presents an overview of workplace violence against nurses and the factors associated with the issue. Any reader of the article can assess the factors as lack of management attention, shortage of drugs and supplies, disagreements among clients and nurses, and security vacuum. Although the research study was conducted in the Gambia, it provides an understanding that the same factors can apply to any other nursing organization. The authors use the research technique that every researcher should emulate.

Part 3B: Best practice

The best practice is a research method that identifies, combines, describes, and distributes efficient strategies established by healthcare professionals or researchers to ensure effective delivery of care services. The article “Workplace violence against nurses in the Gambia: mixed methods design” presents the best practice so that a reader can capture and understand the concept behind workplace violence against nurses. The article utilizes a research technique that explores nursing violence.

Nurses’ violence is an issue that has persisted in most health care organizations. Therefore, addressing it would assist in improving nurses’ productivity, which is affected by burnout associated with violence. The article identifies various factors associated with violence. For instance, lack of security, staff and drug shortage, and poor workplace manners among nurses where nurses may utter indecent language towards their clients (Sisawo et al., 2017). The research uses qualitative and quantitative designs that assist in easier data collection. Hence, the research uses an evidence-based practice that uses interventions whose efficacy is well supported by numerous scholarly evidence.

The study proves the best practice by proposing various measures. For instance, the authors suggest the need to have interventions in the future that responds to the nursing staff’s needs to ensure workplace violence prevention. Also, the article suggests compulsory in-service education for nurses. It includes service behaviors, safety training, understanding of clients’ needs, and communication skills to effectively deal with workplace assaults that may arise on incoming nurses (Sisawo et al., 2017). Similarly, education can assist in heightening workplace violence in the workplace and improving nurses’ public image. Moreover, they suggest protecting staff by beefing up security at the various healthcare facilities. This is by assigning trained security guards, having patient visitors’ check-in procedures, and installing security video monitoring systems to reduce any violence in the workplace.

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