Workplace violence affects a myriad of healthcare professionals. From a political vantage point it is important for nursing organizations to collaborate with other members of healthcare organizations to push for legislation to make violence towards healthcare workers a crime. Existing legislation and public policy addressing the multifaceted issue is limited and currently no federal criterion mandates workplace violence protection. Since June 2012 thirty states have passed acts which consider violence towards healthcare workers a misdemeanor or felony, however twenty other states have no laws to protect health care workers (Wolf et al., 2014).
