By Ryan Kath, NBC Action News Nurses do their job to save lives and help people heal, but an NBC Action News investigation found an increasing number of health care workers also fear for their own safety on a regular basis. The issue of workplace violence inside hospitals is an issue mostly hidden from the …
Category Archive: Healthcare violence
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Nov 21 2011
Health Care Facilities Workplace Violence Prevention Act Introduced in Pennsylvania House to Promote Culture of Safety
Press Release from Employment Screening Resources To promote a “culture of safety” in health care facilities and help protect health care workers from incidents of workplace violence in the state of Pennsylvania, the ‘Health Care Facilities Workplace Violence Prevention Act’ (House Bill 1992) was recently introduced in the Pennsylvania House, according to a report from …
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Nov 17 2011
Workplace Violence Prevention Bill Introduced in the Pennsylvania House
from HealthCanal.com State Representative Nicholas Micozzie (R-163) has introduced House Bill 1992, which would require Pennsylvania hospitals and other health care facilities to take proactive steps to protect nurses and other health care workers from suffering from violence on the job. The bill, a joint effort between the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied …
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Nov 15 2011
ED Nurses Still Wear a Bullseye for Workplace Abuse
By John Commins, HealthLeaders Media There isn’t much good news in the latest nationwide survey of workplace violence against emergency department nurses. Despite the media attention generated by the 2009 survey, which showed that emergency nurses rank with cops and prison guards when it comes to on-the-job verbal and physical abuse, and the needle hasn’t …
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Nov 09 2011
US: Survey finds no letup in violence against ED nurses
from Nurse.com News The latest release of an ongoing national survey of more than 7,000 ED nurses found that rates of physical violence and verbal abuse against nurses did not decrease between May 2009 and January 2011. In the 12 months from January 2010 to January 2011, 53.4% of nurses reported experiencing verbal abuse and …
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