I. Policy

• Advocate for all licensed healthcare facilities to implement standards for WPV prevention programs.
• Advocate for policy that requires nurses providing direct care to be included in the facilities WPV prevention committee that reviews policies, reports, data analysis, and provides recommendations for risk reduction.
• Advocate for Wisconsin state policy change surrounding WPV toward nurses.

II. Education

• Inform all nurses about WNA’s Workforce Advocacy Council recorded webinar from November 14, 2024. The Landscape of Wisconsin’s Workplace Violence Towards Nurses: Education, Practice, and Policy. The webinar provides a summary of the key elements of this report.
• Share the report with legislative bodies, governmental agencies, schools of nursing, WNA members, associations, and nurse leader
• Promote use of evidence based WPV prevention education tools including deescalation and verbal intervention skills.
• Encourage health care organizations with WPV committees to annually review policies and procedures for best practice on WPV prevention.
• Work with WNA’s Nursing Practice, Education and Research Council to develop a WPV toolkit for nursing school faculty.

III. Practice

• Empower nurses to report WPV incidents, review post incident events, and support colleagues to give them time to debrief.
• Advocate for research on innovative technology, Ambient AI, to detect and inform the nurse of escalating behaviors to implement strategies for effective response.
• Bullying, harassment, intimidation, and other inappropriate behaviors by nurses and other healthcare staff are apparent across all workplace settings. WNA’s Workforce Advocacy Council will review the literature and evidence-based practices to develop a strategy and guidelines on how to address these behaviors.
• Request that the Wisconsin Center for Nursing and the Department of Workforce Development develop questions for the RN & LPN Nursing Workforce Surveys on workplace violence.
• WNA’s Nurses Caring for Nurses Task Force will review and identify support resources related to the physical and emotional impact of WPV.
• Policy • Advocate for all licensed healthcare facilities to implement standards for WPV prevention programs.
• Advocate for policy that requires nurses providing direct care to be included in the facilities WPV prevention committee that reviews policies, reports, data analysis, and provides recommendations for risk reduction.
• Advocate for Wisconsin state policy change surrounding WPV toward nurses.