Background: Workplace violence is defined as ‘an incident of aggression that is physical,
sexual, verbal, emotional or psychological that occurs when nurses are abused, threatened or
assaulted in circumstances related to their work. Aim of study: the study aimed to assess
workplace violence and its influence on job performance of staff nurses at Suez Canal University
Hospitals. Subjects and methods: The study was conducted at Suez Canal University Hospitals
in three buildings namely; education building, surgical building, oncology hospital. A
convenience sample used in this study; consists of all staff nurse at the previous mentioned
setting. Two data collection tool was used to carry out the current study namely; Nurse's
perception about factors contributing to workplace violence, and Nurses perception on workplace
violence types, perpetrators and rate of experiencing. Results: 55% of nurses had accepted that
personal factors lead to work-place violence. While, 42% of nurses had rejected that personal
factors lead to work-place violence. 89% of nurses had accepted that work organizational factors
lead to work-place violence. While, 19% of nurses had rejected that work organizational factors
lead to work-place violence. Conclusion and recommendations concluded that there is no
statistically significant relation between job performance and either personal, social or work
factors associated with exposure to work place violence. . The study recommended that Periodic
assessment for workplace violence of staff nurses at Suez Canal University Hospitals and
Periodic assessment for job performance of staff nurses at Suez Canal University Hospitals