Nurse Residency

It is good to read that your facility was offering a Nurse Residency that addressed lateral violence. Other facilities that I have worked at have addressed it in the context of a larger issue on how to deal with workplace violence or assault; It will be interesting to see how people will react when it becomes a nursing issue because I think we will be more likely to work on reducing and preventing it when we take some ownership and, look at antecedents behaviors that contribute or start this as well as review the impact on nursing colleagues that have suffered this. It may no longer be as distant as it appears for those that have not suffered same. Another thing that could help is if it is seen as a nursing issue and emphasis made during orientation