By Carlton Purvis Last fall, the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) released data from an ongoing survey aimed at assessing the prevalence of violence against emergency room nurses [1]. The study surveyed more than 7,000 nurses nationwide. Thirteen percent of nurses surveyed reported experiencing physical violence in past seven days. More than three-quarters (82 percent) of …
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Mar 20 2012
The Workplace Violence Epidemic
By Marleah Blades The challenges of securing employees, assets, clients and facilities can be difficult to meet in any environment; however, few organizations must contend with the level of daily turbulence and pressure that hospitals do. Changes due to federal health reform, compliance with data protection laws and employee safety directives, shifts in demographics and …
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Mar 20 2012
Violence not part of a nurse’s job description
By Lauren Auty “I was assaulted by an intoxicated 20-year-old male as I took the patient to the phone to call his mother for a ride home. He passed me the phone and immediately punched me in the side of the face.” These are the words of Stanley Johnson, a Temple University nurse for nearly …
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Feb 15 2012
WA: State Senate Toughens Treatment Of Violence In Mental Hospitals
By John Ryan, KUOW Hundreds of employees at Western State Hospital in Lakewood are assaulted by their patients each year. Kate Severson is one of the Western employees KUOW interviewed last year for our series on workplace safety. Severson: “If a patient spits on a police officer in jail, or out there, that’s a fourth–degree …
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