Posted on 04/15/2022 6:52:19 PM PDT by algore
Half of nurses in the U.S. are now battling against violence on wards, one of the largest nursing unions in the country said today.
In its bi-annual survey, National Nurses United found more than 48 per cent of nurses said they were facing a small or significant spike in violence at work.
This was more than double the 21 per cent that said there were more assaults in their hospitals in March last year.
Cases included patients spitting on nurses after being told they had tested positive for COVID-19, and scratching, hitting or even threatening healthcare workers with firearms.
Hospitals have been facing surging rates of patients attacking staff in recent months, fueled by Covid misinformation and staffing shortages.
Unions are calling for stronger protections for healthcare staff, warning the surge of attacks is leaving many 'distracted' and unable to do their jobs.
The NNU survey involved more than 2,500 nurses from every state in America, and was carried out through February and March.
The union performs the survey once every six months, with a new report published each April and October.
It defined violence against healthcare workers as physical assaults such as hitting, kicking, scratching and spitting.
It also included verbal threats of physical violence that 'cause an employee to fear for their physical safety'.
It is a far cry from the early days of the pandemic, when healthcare workers were heralded as heroes.
Cases reported on hospital systems include a nurse being grabbed by her wrist and repeatedly kicked in the ribs at a hospital in Georgia.
In another incident, a nurse was left screaming in fear after a patient pinned her against a door and pressed her head into it.
Several hospitals — including one in Missouri — have now brought in panic buttons for staff
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The headline is kind of confusing.
Gee.....wonder if it has anything to do with them wearing masks. Forced to wear them as most hospitals receive federal funding. Seeing someone’s face can make a big difference. Our faceless stewardesses are feeling the same backlash.
It’s not just the Wuhan Flu. One guy came out of a black out and decided he would try to break my daughter’s arm. She encouraged him. Great I’ll get to go home and be on workers comp and you’ll go to jail. He eased up. She then had him sign out AMA and called him a ride… it was the local sheriff who drove him to other custody
I am told that when I came out of general anesthesia after getting my wisdom teeth extracted, I tried to deck the attending nurse in post op. I don't personally remember it, but that's what I was told.
Ever since that point, I warn the anesthesiologist and staff about the experience so that they can have the opportunity to put restraints on when I come out of anesthesia.
Strange how the healers end up victims trying to heal.
I could tell stories but they’re old now, and I’m a cripple.
I had a heart cath and was recovering. The procedure involves an incision in the groin where they send a camera to the heart area.
There is a danger of bleeding from the femoral artery so the incision has to be checked frequently. I was asleep & the nurse was going to check it without disturbing me. She gently adjusted the bandage, and I grabbed her by the throat.
I quickly realized what was going on and I apologized profusely. She said she would never do that again.
As a nurse, (and now an NP) I’m here to tell ya — violence against nurses is nothing new. At all.
However, the frightened public, including patients who are admitted into the wards, then masked and prohibited from being able to have visitors and never knowing if they’ll ever leave are likely causing some of the behaviors. I’m sure a lot of them are likely elderly, confused, and ultimately abusive and agitated.
Add to that a shortage of RN’s imposed by the Fauci Vax Nazis and you’ve got a recipe for disaster in our hospitals.
I remember working a ratio of 4:1 with a charge nurse who would float from room to room helping out, as well as a unit fully staffed with med techs.
Contrast that with what we have now — ratios of 7:1, no charge nurse, no techs — that is beyond undoable for any human being to cope with, much less a young, often inexperienced nurse fresh out of school (they long ago let go of all the older experienced nurses — too costly and got in the way of the head hauncho admins receiving their annual bonuses).
Nursing, and our hospitals, are an utter mess in some areas.
When I was working full time as direct care staff in a group home for mentally disabled adults, we employees attended mandatory trainning for Self Defense moves.
We never called it Self Defense, but that’s what it was about.
This wasn’t anything aggressive. It taught us about how to parry a fist when someone wanted to punch your light out.
It taught us how to get out of a choke hold.
It taught us how to push the client away if they were biting or trying to bite you. Raise their nose, push them away, as you withdraw your hand. Sometime it worked better than other times.
It reminded us to direct the client if you could see aggression building up. The nurses could use such training.
Nurses’ employers commit workplace violence against unvaccinated nurses every day of the week.
Let the vaccine protect them.
Good idea
This guy was just a black out drunk who’s “friends” dropped him at the ER for help
Coming out of anesthesia one time, I was told that I was, um... Being very suggestive and hitting on nurses. That’s apparently my normal reaction. When I used to be on Ambien (the stuff is awful), I used to seduce my husband. I almost never remembered doing it.
The first time I took it, I was on vacation with my at-the-time boyfriend of six years, and we were intimate. I didn’t remember any of it, and he was deeply offended. Apparently I was up eating pizza, talking (nornally, apparently), watching TV and playing board games with him and other friends who were with us, as about a dozen of us rented a 5-bedroom cabin for the weekend.
When sedated, I wind up hypersexualized. It’s very interesting.
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As a former ICU Rn, that is a recipe for disaster, medication accidents, neglect, very unsafe.
But guess who doesn't care? The media, politicians who created the hyped fear. It is all part of the plan. Food shortage and civil unrest to follow. The Great Reset!
I can tell you such incidents are all too common.
That's why we have armed security in the hospital I work and recently, simply because I just happened to be in the right place at the right time to prevent a young nurse from getting her head beat in by a male patient in the psychiatric evaluation unit. It's the kind of stuff that goes on all the time.
In NJ at least assaulting, threatening or otherwise forcibly or other wise preventing any health care/or care facility worker is a felony and you will be arrested right there in the ER.
I've seen it happen.
Sorry to hear you had a bad reaction to Ambien. I take it fairly regularly and have no problem with it at all.
It’s tough duty. The over dose and black out drunk population take up beds that could be better used by other people
Understand. I think the reason in both or cases is that there could be subconscious drives that our conscious minds suppress.
As long as we notify the anesthesiology staffs beforehand, if they don't prepare for those eventualities, it's on them if they actually occur.
The ER I work in is the largest in the state of NJ and yeah, we could do without the loud mouth drunks and meth heads( who almost always are women) but the law says each and every one who comes into an ER has to be treated.
As I said, I’m just a mop jockey but you can’t be a spectator. I can’t deliver patient care but we are given certain instructions as to making sure all patients are safe, not unattended or in any way not being taken care.
Sure some of them you’d like strangle but you have to maintain your composure and do your job and as far as the nurses where I work, they’re angles, everyone of them. They do their job.
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