What is it about?
Nursing students often face workplace violence on placements, affecting safety and learning. This study highlights how clinical facilitators protect, prepare, and support students, while calling for better training, communication, and policies to ensure safer placements.
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Why is it important?
Nursing students often experience workplace violence during clinical placements, which can harm their confidence, wellbeing, and future in the profession. While research has focused on students’ perspectives, this study is the first to explore how clinical facilitators—those who guide and support students—manage such incidents. Their insights are timely and important, offering practical strategies to protect students, improve communication, and strengthen reporting processes. These findings can shape safer, more supportive placements and help sustain the nursing workforce.
Perspectives
Nursing students often face workplace violence on placements, yet little attention has been given to the role of clinical facilitators in managing it. This study is the first to capture their experiences and strategies. From my perspective, this work is both urgent and practical—it shines a light on the hidden challenges of facilitation. It offers timely solutions to strengthen student safety, wellbeing, and learning. I hope these insights help universities and health services create safer, more supportive environments.
Hila Dafny
Flinders University
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This page is a summary of: Clinical facilitators’ experiences and management strategies of workplace violence against registered nurse students on clinical placements., Psychology of Violence, September 2025, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/vio0000642.
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