Sexual Harassment in the Emergency Department: A Quality Improvement Project with Educational Intervention
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of tools created to help educate bedside nurses on handling patient-perpetrated sexual harassment in healthcare settings.Methods: A quality improvement project with educational intervention was conducted in the Emergency Department of a South Florida hospital to identify prevalence, knowledge and confidence levels, and the effectiveness of an educational intervention. A convenience sample (n=15) was collected using voluntary participants. The project included an introductory email with a pre-survey, educational vignettes, and a post-survey. Survey distribution and data analysis were performed through Qualtrics. Results: 53.3% of respondents reported previous experience with sexual harassment. Mean pre-survey confidence levels for identifying and handling sexual harassment were 6.27 and 5.53, respectively. Post-survey confidence levels were 7.57 and 7.2. Sexual harassment knowledge assessment scores were an average 91.5% pre-intervention and 95.3% post-intervention with a 4.2% improvement rate.Discussion: Males made up almost half of participants with direct sexual harassment experiences and showed lower pre-intervention confidence scores, which highlights a new issue that males are less comfortable handling sexual harassment. Participants with no previous sexual harassment experience reported feeling prepared at a significantly higher rate, which may indicate an altered perception between hypothetical and real-life situations. The majority of participants reported previous sexual harassment training, but more than a quarter were unaware of workplace protocols and more than half were unaware of current legislation regarding sexual harassment. These responses paired with lower-ranking confidence levels identifies a need for higher quality sexual harassment education and training. Conclusion: The educational intervention had a positive impact on both confidence and knowledge levels. The findings of this study highlight the need for revision of workplace training and education regarding workplace violence and patient-perpetrated sexual harassment in healthcare settings.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".