Workplace Violence: The healthcare industry has risen to 10.4 per 10,000 workers since 2018 (AACN, 2021). Join me for a conversation with Registered Nurse, Brittany DiNatale about the violence against healthcare workers and understanding the issues surrounding this growing problem in the healthcare profession. Brittany defines workplace violence, steps to combat workplace violence including legislation, and where we go from here. We discuss the UTHSC CON’s Management of Aggressive Patient
...See More Situations (MAPS) program to help give healthcare providers the tools needed to de-escalate potentially dangerous situations.
More about Brittany DiNatale, BSN, RN:
Britt DiNatale enjoys wearing many hats and has tried on several styles and colors over the years. Her largest identity is as a nurse, having worked in the ER for nearly a decade in the Washington, DC area. Prior to her nursing career, Britt wore the hat of a marketing and business development executive, supporting the explosive growth of a broadcast technology startup and traveling the world. Britt’s quest for new skills and new challenges has most recently taken her to the American Nurses Association where she manages Project Firstline, a program empowering the healthcare workforce with core training to protect themselves, their family, their facility, and their community from infection threats.
Another hat Britt enjoys wearing is as a Fellow in Health Policy and Media at the George Washington University School of Nursing’s Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement. There she explores opportunities to use media to advance policy change around workplace violence. The thread running through all her recent work, projects, and writing is a passion to give the nursing workforce a voice, advocating for an improved work environment, and seeing nurses as change agents in needed healthcare transformation. You can find her at www.RNinDC.com or @RNinDC.
When not sporting her professional hat collection, Britt wears that of a Mom to her wonderful daughter and has an old dusty musician hat she pulls out on rare occasions.
-Report, report, report
-Use The Joint Commission standards as a starting point
-Get involved in associations/campaigns
The “That’s Healthful” podcast is hosted by Dr. Lisa Beasley, a Family Nurse Practitioner, and faculty in the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Visit thatshealthful.com for more information or to hear prior episodes. Please follow @nowhealthful on Twitter and thatshealthful on Instagram. Like or comment on an episode wherever you listen or stream your favorite podcasts.
Music for this episode is provided by local Memphis singer, musician, and songwriter – Devan Yanik. For more of Devan’s music visit devanmusic.weebly.com.
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