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Workplace Violence Grant Program

House Bill 280 (H.B. 280), 85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, added Section 105.011 to include a workplace violence grant program. The Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies administers the grant program to fund innovative approaches for reducing verbal and physical violence against nurses in hospitals, freestanding emergency medical care facilities, nursing facilities, and home health agencies.

2022-2023 Grant Recipients

The 2022-2023 Workplace Violence Against Nurses Grant cycle has ended. Please join us at 1PM on Wednesday, November 13th for presentations from two awardees on their grant projects and outcomes.

Time: 1:00-2:30

Join us via Microsoft Teams at the following link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YTU2N2U4YjAtMDBlZi00MGRkLTkxMjItYmIyM2M0ZTcxZWIw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%229bf97732-82b9-499b-b16a-a93e8ebd536b%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22fe5cb71f-5b48-4b61-a496-4e4504a5786c%22%7d

Presentations:

Baylor Scott and White Research Institute: Dr. Penny Huddleston will present on their project which included installing The Bond Application, a phone app that can be used to notify staff in the local area, hospital security, or the police department in a workplace violence event, on the phones throughout Emergency Departments.

Midland Health: Drs. Carol Boswell and Rebekah Powers will present on their project which included assigning new employee badges; access to standardized/focused de-escalation education, training, and ongoing emotional support for nurses; opportunities to engage in safe dialogue via L.E.A.D. events; organized monthly newsletters; and integration of a workplace violence committee to normalize operations and ensure ongoing strategies.

2024-2025 Grant Recipients

Four awards were made through the 2024-2025 Workplace Violence Against Nurses Grant Program.  These awardees will implement their projects measure their impact on violence in the workplace until February 2026. Their final project reports and presentations will be in Spring 2026.

Awardee Award Amount Project Description
Guadalupe Regional Medical Center $170,088 The Recognize and Respond project will include tiered levels of training for
employees to learn to identify escalating behaviors, techniques for verbal
de-escalation, and skills to respond to crisis with safe disengagements and
restrictive interventions. It will also include the implementation of mobile duress
badges to allow a discreet request for rapid incident response at the employee’s
exact location.
Memorial Hermann $199,480 This program will provide specialized behavior management training to RNs
who treat individuals with challenging behaviors following acquired brain injury.
Rates of workplace violence, RN psychological well-being, and staff retention
will be measured before and after implementation of behavior management
training.
JPS - Tarrant County $148,263 JPS plans to use grant funding to expand training in a trauma-informed
program that will use a train-the-trainer model. Nurses will complete
computer-based learning to review violent events and use a scale to assess
patient aggression. Through this program, nurses will receive hands-on training
to recognize and defuse aggressive behavior.
Midland Health $149,170 The project includes training trainers in Satori Alternatives to Managing
Aggression (SAMA) to provide training to nurses in the hospital as well as 50
additional nurses in rural hospitals and community agencies; offer an area-wide
Workplace Violence Prevention conference, offer nurses the opportunity to
discuss workplace violence issues through Leadership Excellence Advancement
Development (LEAD) events and Schwartz rounds; continuing education related
to management of access-controlled nursing units, and community education on
workplace violence in healthcare will be produced and broadcast.

For a list of previous awardees, please email us.

Request for Applications

The application cycle for FY 2024-2025 closed on January 9th, 2024. The application cycle for FY 2025-2026 is tentatively planned for Summer 2025. 

Grant Program Reports

You can also access data and reports from the workplace violence studies conducted by the TCNWS.