Shane Combs
Curtin University
15 Papers
113 Citations
Shane Combs is an academic researcher from Curtin University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Workplace violence. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 15 publications. Previous affiliations of Shane Combs include James Cook University & Hollywood Private Hospital.
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Papers
Examining the characteristics of workplace violence in one non-tertiary hospital.
TL;DR: This study showed that for this sample of nurses violent events are occurring at a rate that is similar to those reported in other studies, which should be of great concern to the organisation and the community in general.
Nurses' experience of adjusting to workplace violence: A theory of adaptation
TL;DR: This study was the first of its kind to use a theory of cognitive adaptation to explore nurses' experiences of workplace violence and participants were found to use the cognitive processes of finding meaning, gaining mastery and enhancing the self to adapt to workplace violence.
Predicting patient aggression against nurses in all hospital areas.
TL;DR: A study of nurses experience of workplaces violence identifies those factors and behaviours that nurses reported as indicating that an episode of workplace violence is likely to occur and the acronym STAMPEDAR was used to classify the nine components.
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Consequences of workplace violence directed at nurses
TL;DR: Examining nurses' perspectives of the consequences of WPV, to identify ways to reduce the impact of these incidents and recommendations for improving the safety of hospitals for staff and patients are made.
Assessing health professionals' perceptions of family presence during resuscitation: A replication study
TL;DR: The findings confirm the validity of the Family Presence Risk-Benefit and Family Presence Self-Confidence Scales in the Australian context, and highlight the need to support clinicians in the provision of family witnessed resuscitation to all families.
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