In university hospitals in Togo, patient care is provided by all healthcare staff. Among these nursing staff, nurses are in more contact with patients and their companions. This proximity exposes them to violence from healthcare users. This violence affects the majority of staff working in support services. However, to the current state of our knowledge, very few studies have focused on this subject and focused more on internal violence. Thus, this article aims to evaluate the prevalence of external or exogenous violence and its impacts among nurses in university hospitals in Togo. This is a descriptive study of which we used the questionnaire survey to collect information from 186 nurses working in the three university hospital centers in Togo. The prevalence of exogenous violence is estimated at (88%), including (98.1%) verbal; (41.3%) psychological and (21.3%) physical. The physical, psychological and professional impacts have been noted. The problem of exogenous violence raises questions that require in-depth research to address.
Keywords: Violence; Suffering; Nurses; Centers; University hospitalist.
