Objective: To review studies related with violence against emergency department nurses, published between January 2010 and February 2015, and to examine systematically the data obtained.

Material and Method: We have been able to reach 973 national and international relevant publications. All of these studies have been reviewed, and 12 of them that include type and amount of violence, and that are suitable to the criteria to be included in the research, have been evaluated within framework of the study. All publications have been systematically examined in terms of research methods and findings.

Results: At the end of this systematic review, it has been found out that although amount of the violence against emergency department nurses varies as per country and region, it is still high. It has been determined that nurses are exposed to mostly to verbal violence (91.6 %) and violence is mostly applied by patient’s family members (84.9 %). They have stated that they did not report violence because they do not believe that reporting would help (77.4%), and that reports are not processed (60%). Duration of waiting has been stated as the 19.5% reason of violence. Nurses who were exposed to violence, mostly felt anger (59.4%), generally did not react, and the ratio of ignoring the violence is 9.2%.

Conclusion: Violence is also an important issue for nurses who are members of the health staff. Systematic review of the issue helped to reach scientific evidence about the importance and size of the problem. It is thought that the findings will be helpful in determining content of future researches and planning precautions to solve the problem in clinical field.