Sheila Mallett-Smith

ORCID: 0000-0003-2078-8301
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Research Areas
  • Workplace Violence and Bullying
  • Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation
  • Blood transfusion and management

Los Angeles Medical Center
2023-2024

University of Southern California
2023-2024

California State University, Long Beach
2023

California State University, Fullerton
2023

Background: Emergency department (ED) health care workers experience high rates of workplace violence (WPV). Local Problem: Patient-to-staff physical assaults at an urban, academic adult ED ranged between 1 and 5 per month, with a rate 0.265 1000 patient visits. Methods: A quality improvement initiative, guided by the Social Ecological Model framework that contextualized WPV in setting, informed development Risk for Violence Screening Tool (RVST) to screen patients presenting ED....

10.1097/ncq.0000000000000711 article EN Journal of Nursing Care Quality 2023-03-30

There is a lack of high-quality evidence to support the recommendation an instrument screen emergency department patients for their risk violence. To demonstrate content and predictive validity reliability novel Risk Violence Screening Tool identify at This retrospective screening study was conducted 100-bed in urban, academic, safety net trauma center Southern California. Nine subject matter expert employees 22,583 non-critical adult patients. Subject experts rated relevance 30 items 10...

10.1016/j.ijnsa.2024.100280 article EN cc-by-nc-nd International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances 2024-12-05
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