Although hospitals have implemented more safety rules and states have toughened assault laws, nurses and other health care professionals are still more likely than most other workers to experience violence at work. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is working on a best-practices course, which will be accessible in 2012 through the ANA and the NIOSH websites, to educate health care providers about workplace violence prevention. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (2/22)
Does anybody actually have a facility that will prosecute the patient's and families that feel they are entitled to threaten nurses, or be verbally and physically abusive towards them?
We have big signs saying it is a Felony to threaten or assault the nursing staff, but when it happens, they refuse to actually do anything and the police do not even want to take a statement.
Why is it okay for these people to get away with this? I understand the emotional strain of being in the hospital...But it is not NOW or EVER OKAY to act this way unless truly demented or psychotic...Just being an impatient rude jerk is intolerable, and even the alcoholics and drug users know how they are behaving and who they are threatening..these people are just not right... and it should not be tolerated, especially when you are trying to help them.
Really...I know the facility I work at did not send them an invitation to come there, nor were they promised drive through medicine or narcotics, and this place is not named The Marriot or McDonalds...
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