Examining the utility of the Violence Prevention Climate scale: In a metropolitan Australian general hospital

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Brunero ◽  
Scott Lamont ◽  
Sarah Dunn ◽  
Wayne Varndell ◽  
Geoffrey L. Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Violence Prevention ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Climate Scale ◽  
Violence Prevention Climate

Portuguese Version of the 12-Item Violence Prevention Climate Scale: Test of Psychometric Properties

2020 ◽  
pp. JNM-D-20-00011
Author(s):  
Emelda Pacheco ◽  
Ana Bártolo ◽  
Anabela Pereira ◽  
João Carvalho Duarte ◽  
Carlos F. Silva
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Portuguese Version ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Climate Scale ◽  
Violence Prevention Climate

Background and PurposeA violence prevention climate is critical for nurses’ well-being but also for nursing practice and the quality of care. This study examined the reliability and factor validity of the European Portuguese version of the 12-item Violence Prevention Climate Scale (VPCS).MethodsData came from a sample of 120 nurses providing care in Portugal. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the structural theory of the scale.ResultsFirst and second-order confirmatory factor analysis models showed identical goodness-of-fit suggesting the adequacy of the models to the sample data. Our results also provide evidence of composite reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity.ConclusionsConsistent with previous studies, data from this study showed that the Portuguese version of the 12-item VPCS is a reliable and valid scale to evaluate nurses’ perceptions of a violence prevention climate.

scholarly journals Measuring the violence prevention climate: Development and evaluation of the VPC-14

2018 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 97-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nutmeg Hallett ◽  
Jörg Huber ◽  
Judith Sixsmith ◽  
Geoffrey L. Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Violence Prevention Climate

scholarly journals Safewards: Changes in conflict, containment, and violence prevention climate during implementation

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 1230-1240
Author(s):  
Geoffrey L. Dickens ◽  
Tracy Tabvuma ◽  
Steven A. Frost ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Violence Prevention Climate

Heat-Etching with a Bullivant Type II Simple Freeze-Cleave Device

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 106-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald S. Weinstein ◽  
N. Scott McNutt
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Massachusetts General Hospital ◽  
Type I ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Temperature And Pressure ◽  
The University

The Type I simple cold block device was described by Bullivant and Ames in 1966 and represented the product of the first successful effort to simplify the equipment required to do sophisticated freeze-cleave techniques. Bullivant, Weinstein and Someda described the Type II device which is a modification of the Type I device and was developed as a collaborative effort at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The modifications reduced specimen contamination and provided controlled specimen warming for heat-etching of fracture faces. We have now tested the Mass. General Hospital version of the Type II device (called the “Type II-MGH device”) on a wide variety of biological specimens and have established temperature and pressure curves for routine heat-etching with the device.

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