Violence committed against nursing staff by patients in psychiatric outpatient settings

Abstract Violence against nurses has increased particularly in psychiatric outpatient settings as psychiatric care shifts from being inpatient‐based to being outpatient‐based. Violence is a complex phenomenon that must be explored in different psychiatric nursing environments and settings. Violence in psychiatric outpatient settings should especially be explored as violence in this context has scarcely been examined. The aim of this systematic review was to elucidate violence committed against nursing staff by patients in adult psychiatric outpatient settings, based on reports from previous studies. A literature search was conducted in the CINAHL (EBSCO), Ovid MEDLINE, and PsycARTICLES (Ovid) databases. Fourteen studies emerged after the selection and quality assessment process. These studies indicated that violence in psychiatric outpatient settings is a multidimensional phenomenon comprising the reasons for, forms of, and consequences of violence. Reasons for violence could be related to the patient as well as to nursing staff. In psychiatric outpatient settings, verbal violence was the most common form of violence, and violence most frequently led to psychological consequences for nursing staff. The findings of this review highlight the importance of nursing staff developing skills and interventions for managing different kinds of violent situations. Given the multidimensional consequences of violence, attention must be given to the occupational well‐being and coping ability of nursing staff at work. Furthermore, it would be worthwhile to compare cultural and intercountry differences of violent exposures in psychiatric outpatient settings

Experimental Validation of Cryobot Thermal Models for the Exploration of Ocean Worlds

The tables in this repository represent the data used in the figures and analyses of the paper "Experimental Validation of Cryobot Thermal Models for the Exploration of Ocean Worlds", published in the Planetary Science Journal. The provided data was collected between 2020 and 2022.Work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, was carried out under a contract (80NM0018D0004) with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and with funding from a NASA Scientific Exploration Subsurface Access Mechanism for Europa (SESAME) grant (80NM0018F0560). Work at the University of Washington was carried out under the same SESAME grant (80NM0018F0560). Work at Stone Aerospace and MIT was carried out under a separate NASA SESAME grant (80NSSC19K0612), as well as under the MIT TVML Fellowship