Healthcare workers under social stress and violence epidemic

The history of stress and violence goes back a long way. These phenomena are diversifying with the dynamics of a developing and changing world and are dangerous in terms of their consequences. Stress and violence, have become a serious problem worldwide. Therefore, the situation of health personnel trying to provide services by being exposed to these factors made it necessary to conduct this study. The study, aims to examine the elements of stress and violence in depth and at the same time to clarify the violence directed towards the health field theoretically (literature review, theoretical explanations, statics, visuals etc.) through many factors. As a result of this study, it was revealed that the concentration of violence on health workers has become quite alarming. Healthcare workers are under intense stress due to the violence they are exposed to and experience professional burnout. For this reason, a number of preventive activities are carried out worldwide and in Turkey in relation to violence. Keywords: Aggression, Health workers, Stress, Violence, Burnout.