Taking the Hit: Focusing on Caregiver “Error” Masks Organizational-Level Risk Factors for Nursing Aide Assault

Summary

This study explored the beliefs and organisational contexts of nursing aide (caregivers henceforth) assaults and their subsequent reporting of these events.

Although this data is a pretty specific cohort and setting (rural nursing homes), the social and systems lenses that the authors take, and the silence resulting from blame attributions have broader applications.