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Most of the participants experienced WPV such as verbal violence (65.2%), made difficulties (54.5%), tarnished reputation (37.5%), mob behaviour (34.9%), intimidation behaviour (18.8%), physical violence (14.6%) and sexual harassment (5.9%). In this study, 92.4% participants experienced compassionate behaviour from their coworkers (84.9%), supervisors (67.3%), and from their patients (65.3%). The results show that the exposure to WPV behaviour significantly affected the psychological stress (\u03b2=0.295, p&lt;0.01), sleep quality (\u03b2=\u22120.198, p&lt;0.01) and subjective health status (\u03b2=\u22120.252, p&lt;0.01) of nurses. The exposure to compassionate behaviour significantly affected the psychological stress (\u03b2=\u22120.229, p&lt;0.01), sleep quality (\u03b2=0.326, p&lt;0.01) and subjective health status (\u03b2=0.342, p&lt;0.01) of nurses. The results of the mediation analysis showed that psychological stress is a partial mediator in the relationship between violence and sleep quality (\u03b2=\u22120.458, p&lt;0.01) and between violence and subjective health (\u03b2=\u22120.425, p&lt;0.01). Moreover, psychological stress also partially mediated the relationship between compassionate behaviour and sleep quality (\u03b2=\u22120.473, p&lt;0.01), and between compassionate behaviour and subjective health (\u03b2=\u22120.405, p&lt;0.01).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>In China, most nurses have experienced different forms of WPV from patients and\/or their relatives, as well as experiencing various forms of compassionate behaviour from their coworkers, supervisors and\/or patients. This study investigates the prevalence of the different types of WPV and compassionate behaviour. Several aspects of harm to nurses from exposure to violence is confirmed. 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