Implementing the Brøset Violence Checklist in the ED.

Am J Nurs

John Lawrence is a sepsis coordinator at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital in Alexandria, VA. Johanna Emory is a pediatric ED nurse at Inova Loudoun Hospital in Leesburg, VA. Sara Sousa is an ED nurse manager at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, VA. Danielle Thompson is a clinical mentor at Inova Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, VA. Kenya Jenkins is an education coordinator at Inova Health System in Falls Church, VA, where Maureen Kirkpatrick McLaughlin is an implementation science consultant and Kathleen Russell-Babin is vice president of professional practice. Amanda P. Bettencourt is an assistant professor in the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in Philadelphia and an implementation science consultant. Contact author: Kathleen Russell-Babin, The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

Published: July 2024

The emerging field of implementation science (IS) facilitates the sustainment of evidence-based practice in clinical care. This article, the second in a series on applying IS, describes how a nurse-led IS team at a multisite health system implemented the Brøset Violence Checklist-a validated, evidence-based tool to predict a patient's potential to become violent-in the system's adult EDs, with the aim of decreasing the rate of violence against staff. The authors discuss how they leveraged IS concepts, methods, and tools to achieve this goal.

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