Talk:Workplace safety in healthcare settings

Peer Review
This article contains a host of problems. First off the title does not describe what the article is actually about. The article is primarily about violence in the healthcare setting, not safety overall. The lead does make reference to non-violence related safety hazards, but these ideas are extremely undeveloped and do a very poor job of highlighting the risks specific to the healthcare field. For example, it does not make any reference to biohazards which are a key, industry-specific safety hazard in the healthcare field. Instead it pinpoints slip and fall injuries which is not unique to the healthcare at all. The first subsection uses excessive space on describing the meaning of the word aggression. There are grammatical errors. The writing quality overall is poor. Kiydal (talk) 17:45, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

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POV and misinformation
This article really does have things the wrong way around. In a healthcare setting it is the (often well-meaning) healthcare professionals who have the power to exercise aggression and intimidation over patients. Unethical practices involving involuntary treatment such as forced electroshock etc are well-known. Other notable examples where healthcare workers have brought unnecessary pain and suffering on their patients include: -- Johnfos (talk) 04:29, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Albert Kligman's dermatology experiments
 * Deep sleep therapy
 * Doctors' Trial
 * Henrietta Lacks
 * Human radiation experiments
 * Jesse Gelsinger
 * Moore v. Regents of the University of California
 * Surgical removal of body parts to try to improve mental health
 * Medical Experimentation on Black Americans
 * Milgram experiment
 * Radioactive iodine experiments
 * Plutonium injections
 * Tuskegee syphilis experiment
 * Willowbrook State School
 * Greenberg v. Miami Children's Hospital Research Institute

And so there has actually been much emphasis on "empowering patients",, rather than aggressive patients. Johnfos (talk) 22:49, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Part of the problem is the use of the word aggression in the title, which is a complex multi-faceted issue, so I will move the article to Work place safety in healthcare settings, as this is what the article is really about. Johnfos (talk) 03:37, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

In this article I added more information about the violence in healthcare settings. CStoviak (talk) 09:09, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

I think that future additions to this article could include a few more statistics on the workplace violence that healthcare workers are dealing with CStoviak (talk) 11:45, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Hmm, I'm not sure whether it is correct to say the article is really about workplace safety. There is a cause for issues in the healthcare sectors and these causes may or may not fit within the contextof workplace safety. Much of medicine consists of one off interactions. You get some drugs, they work. You get a straightforward operation, your life is better. In these areas the concept of a workplace may well make sense, and the negative interactions that take place can be viewed as a workplace settings.

But then suppose someone is bedbound after a serious accident for 6 months and dependent on people for every part of their life; the same people for a six month period. The context of a workplace environment starts to become stretched, and you get two or multiway relationships which are not "purely professional" and can include mutual antagonism. Throw in some power relations and things can become very complex indeed. I don't know whether this can be shoe-horned into workplace safety or viewed as merely as harm inflicted on patients.

As to whether this shows up in the literature is another matter. Unforunately, medics have a tendency of "researching themselves as victims not perpetrators" and to some degree the wikipedia article must follow the literature. There is some stuff in medical sociology which is less along the lines of "how we operate on the patient to stop them being aggressive".

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