Emergency nurses address workplace violencePreliminary data from a study by the Emergency Nurses Association suggest that many emergency department nurses suffer workplace violence but hospitals are unlikely to take action, either by responding to the nurse or against the perpetrator. AnnMarie Papa, the association's president, said institutions should encourage reporting of and responses to workplace violence and urge senior administration to show support for nurse victims. HealthLeaders Media (5/24)
Just another case of a lack of administrative support. This also includes the prosecutors and police who act like it is just to be expected for nurses to be assaulted, bit, hit, etc. This often comes not only from patients (demented or drug intoxicated, or just nasty), but also from family members. This does not even include the verbal and mental abuse we recieve.
We have had cases where a nurse was physicaly attacked by a family member, and the hospital did not want to pursue it an dmore than the prosecutor...GUESS What, this is another form of abuse...
We need support from our so-called leaders and from the legal system...What is the point of posting BIG signs, that say it is a felony to verbally or physically abuse healthcare workers if you are not going to back it up? Really?
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