Webinar Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Join us for a facilitated trauma-informed learning experience and robust, yet gentle and authentic, discussion exploring workplace violence (WPV) in hospitals and health systems, with a particular focus on worker-on-worker violence or lateral violence. The one-time 90 minute virtual training will curate an online safe(r) space to explore the association between lateral violence and violence enacted by health care workers against U.S. cis and trans Black women and femmes living with or without HIV. Using narrative analysis and anonymous online polling, we will explore how power dynamics and differentials in the workplace facilitate violations of quality and safety for BOTH patients and health care workers, particularly structurally marginalized and minoritized communities identifying as cis and trans Black women and femmes.

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Define the typology and implications of workplace violence.
• Describe the limitations in naming and reporting worker-on-worker violence or lateral violence directed towards humanistic and justice-driven health care workers.
• List opportunities for improving recognition, reporting, and reconciling with lateral violence against humanistic, patient-community focused, and justice-driven health care workers.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG (she/her), stands as the Chief Black Feminist Physician Scientist, Founder, and Owner of Birthing Cultural Rigor, LLC, boasting a remarkable legacy spanning over 25 years. Dr. Scott’s unwavering commitment unveils a profound exploration of health services design, provision, evaluation, and training in obstetric units as arenas perpetuating obstetric racism against Black women, girls, and gender expansive individuals.

View the webinar on YouTube.

The planners and speakers for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

The Pacific AETC is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $4,377,449. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.

The National Clinician Consultation Center program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $3,236,220 with 0% financed with non-governmental sources.