by Michael Heitt | Apr 9, 2019 | human behavior, workplace violence
On its “All Things Considered” program and in its “Shots” blog, NPR reported that healthcare workers have been frequent targets of violence against them from patients and their families. OSHA statistics note that incidents of serious workplace violence are four times...
by Michael Heitt | Mar 7, 2018 | Coaching, Disruptive Professionals, disruptive students, human behavior, Human Resources, Patient safety, policies and procedures, workplace violence, zero tolerance
A colleague from the University of Maryland/VAMC, Preeti John, MD, and I just published an article in the Journal of Hospital Medicine about disruptive physician behavior. Check it out: Disruptive Physician Behavior: The Importance of Recognition and Intervention and...
by Michael Heitt | Jun 26, 2013 | Disruptive Professionals, Human Resources, policies and procedures, workplace violence
Marty Martin, a former Hopkins guy (I think we only briefly overlapped our tenures there), wrote a nice little piece entitled, Taming Disruptive Behavior for the AGProfessional website. As you can see the concepts we talk about regarding disruptive behavior and...
by Michael Heitt | May 21, 2013 | Disruptive Professionals, human behavior, risk assessment, workplace violence
The ApA put out a brief about a study published in Comprehensive Psychiatry which noted correlations between aggressive behavior and being fired from jobs. The brief nicely noted that people who self-describe as frequently engaging in aggressive behaviors (disruptive...
by Michael Heitt | May 21, 2013 | Disruptive Professionals, disruptive students, human behavior, workplace violence
It has long been understood that bullies typically have been bullied themselves. A few months ago I came across an interesting write up about the correlation between bullying behavior (and victimization from such behavior) and psychiatric illness. In a study...
by Michael Heitt | Sep 5, 2012 | Investigation, workplace violence, zero tolerance
I was recently sent an article entitled, “Countering Workplace Violence” that I found to be very well-written and extremely well-grounded. The piece was written in response to the recent shooting in Manhattan, but what I liked most about it was that,...
