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POSTED: October 30th, 2020
POSTED IN: EM Pulse - The Official Newsletter of MOCEP, September/October 2020,

ACEP participated in a technical expert panel hosted by The Joint Commission (TJC) on addressing workplace violence in health care. TJC is seeking the perspective of physicians and other health care practitioners as it examines potential standards and enforcement options to crack down on this violence. 

ACEP has long advocated for more robust federal standards to be put in place to better protect emergency physicians and their patients from potential violent episodes in the emergency department. Unfortunately, many emergency physicians have been physically or verbally assaulted in the emergency department. In fact, an ACEP survey showed that nearly half of emergency physicians have experienced violence in the emergency department and 80 percent of emergency physicians said that violence in the emergency department was harming patient care.

ACEP and the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) have launched “No Silence on ED Violence” to support, empower, and protect those working in our nation’s emergency departments by raising awareness of the serious dangers emergency health providers face every day, and by generating action among stakeholders and policymakers to ensure a violence-free workplace for emergency nurses and physicians.