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Healthcare Violence Reduction Center
Violence Reduction Resources

The following resources are being provided to all healthcare organizations intent on reducing workplace violence.

Under Threat: Stopping Violence Against Health Care Workers

Health care professionals dedicate their lives to healing others, yet are among the most at risk for workplace violence. In this Leadership Dialogue conversation, Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health and 2025 AHA board chair, sits down with Claire Zangerle, DNP, R.N., CEO of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) and senior vice president and chief nurse executive of the American Hospital Association, to discuss the now necessary security measures for hospitals and health systems, workplace violence prevention strategies, and the urgent need to advocate for health care worker protections.

Workplace Violence Risk Factors, Prevention, Training and Enforcement

Workplace violence is any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening behavior that occurs at the work site. View OSHA recommendations for prevention, training, and enforcement.

Workplace Violence in Healthcare

Workplace violence can impact healthcare workers, clients, and patients. Access OSHA studies, news, and resources specific to the healthcare field.

Online Workplace Violence Prevention Course for Nurses

This free, interactive course is designed to help healthcare workers better understand the scope and nature of violence in the workplace. Upon successful completion of the course, healthcare professionals can earn continuing education units.

Contact

Stacey
Frankovich

Director, Healthcare Violence Reduction Center
Adjunct Faculty

248.204.3674
sfrankovi@ltu.edu

Healthcare Violence Reduction Center

Lawrence Technological University
21000 West Ten Mile Road,
Southfield, MI 48075-1058

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.