Statistics You Should Know: Workplace Violence in Healthcare
Although 75% of all workplace assaults occur in healthcare settings, only 30% of nurses and 26% of physicians have reported workplace violence incidents.
Although 75% of all workplace assaults occur in healthcare settings, only 30% of nurses and 26% of physicians have reported workplace violence incidents.
Witnesses said the patient was becoming combative as hospital workers attempted to restrain him at Roper St. Francis Hospital.
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A patient was being treated for a drug overdose at the Hawaii hospital when he grabbed a nurse and held a knife to her throat.
Authorities were aware the patient was unstable and had a gun when a woman reported him to the police 17 hours before he shot a hospital employee.
When staff found the patient in his room, a gun was on his lap and a bag delivered by a visitor was on the floor next to him.
The ER doctor says he saw a man in a wheelchair with a gun at the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center and knew he had to act.
The BC Forensic Psychiatric Hospital has had a long history of violent patient attacks against nurses and other staff members.
Three other nurses filed additional lawsuits against Kane County and received settlement money, bringing the total amount to $7.9 million.
The patient who shot himself had been admitted to the hospital that day for a psychiatric evaluation for depression issues.