Amie Varley Sara Fung and Gina Lopez On Violence in the Health Care Workspace

Episode 54 Amie Varley, Sara Fung, and Gina Lopez on Violence in the Health Care Workspace

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Amie Varley, RN, BN, MScN- CP Women's Health, received her Bachelor's degree from the University of New Brunswick in Nursing and her Masters Degree in Nursing from the University of Toronto (U of T). She also completed a collaborative Masters Degree program with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health  at U of T in Women's Health.

 Amie is a dynamic speaker, advocate and activist for nursing as a profession, mental health, health equity, Womxn's health and Womxn's rights. Her Master's degree focused on the mental health of postpartum Womxn and transgender medicine.  She has worked as a nurse in many roles; Labour and Delivery Nurse, Maternal Child Nurse, Educator, Professional Practice Clinician, College/University Faculty and in Quality Improvement.

Sara Fung, RN, BScN, MN,  received her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from Western University and her Master's of Nursing from the University of Toronto. 

 Her expertise is in maternal child health, with clinical experience in obstetrics and the NICU. She has worked in both academic and community hospitals and home health as a bedside nurse, educator, advanced practice nurse and professional practice specialist. In addition to working full time, she is also a mother of 2, resume writer/interview coach, and podcaster!

Sara is passionate about issues such as bullying and incivility, diversity and inclusion, and helping nurses find their career paths in a profession with so many opportunities!

Gina Lopez, MD, MPH received her Bachelor’s of Science from the City College of New York and graduated from Albany Medical College as a Doctor of Medicine. She completed her Master of Public Health with a concentration in operations management from Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a practicing board certified Emergency Physician working at Boston Medical Center, which is the busiest provider of trauma and emergency services in New England. As an assistant professor at Boston University School of Medicine, she has special interests in trauma, team dynamics, work-life integration and resilience as well as diversity and inclusion. She is the director of workplace safety for the emergency department and active in policy and procedures development and training related to workplace violence and management of escalation. Clinically, she strives to be an empathic listener and holistic care provider and personally, she is an involved mother of three and supportive wife.

Emergency Nurses Association Workplace Violence

Violence in the Emergency Department: Resources for a Safer Workplace

Emergency Doctors and Nurses Team Up on No Silence on ED Violence Campaign

ACEP Policies

Protection from Violence in the Emergency Department

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) believes that workplace violence is a preventable and significant public health problem and that optimal patient care can be achieved only when patients, health care workers, and all other persons in the emergency department are protected against violent acts occurring within the department. 

Emergency Department Violence: An Overview and Compilation of Resources