Publications by authors named "Juan Manuel Canovas-Pallares"

Background/objectives: Nursing professionals are often subject to social stereotypes that can hinder effective teamwork with other healthcare professionals and limit their professional growth. Interprofessional education (IPE) enhances teamwork skills and promotes a better understanding of other professional groups. This study aimed to identify the presence of stereotypes associated with nursing among postgraduate nursing and student physicians specializing in emergency medicine and to assess the applicability of simulation as an IPE strategy.

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Article Synopsis
  • Workplace violence is a significant issue, particularly in healthcare, with emergency department workers facing heightened risks of mental and physical health problems.
  • The study aimed to investigate the frequency of violence from patients and coworkers experienced by emergency department professionals and analyze its impact on factors like burnout and job satisfaction.
  • Findings revealed high levels of both physical and non-physical violence, with variations among roles; administrative staff faced more non-physical violence, while nurses showed higher job satisfaction and engagement levels.
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Objectives: Workplace violence of any type is influenced by multiple factors and leads to physiological, psychological, social, and organizational change. Emergency and other urgent care settings have assault rates up to 5-fold higher than other health care settings. This study aimed to analyze the consequences of physical and nonphysical violence on health care and support personnel in hospital emergency departments.

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Objective: Workplace violence is a public health problem that affects professionals in the hospital emergency services, being this environment where there is an intense interaction with users and / or relatives who require critical and / or special care. Given this, the aim of this study was to evaluate the exposure to user violence perceived by different health and non-health professionals in Emergency Services belonging to eleven Spanish hospitals.

Methods: The design was an associative, descriptive-comparative cross-sectional strategy developed in 2019 with a sample of 584 healthcare and non-healthcare professionals from eleven Spanish hospital emergency services in eight Spanish autonomous communities.

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