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Editor’s Letter
Welcome 2009! It's hard to believe the first month of the new year is almost over and even though there seems to be nothing by negative news in the media lately, a new year signifies a fresh start and hope for a better year than last. We'd like to wish everyone a belated Happy New Year and if you live in a cold climate, as we are in the northeast, hope you are keeping toasty warm. Spring is right around the corner!
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"I love being a nurse and have two daughters that are BSN. My slogan since being a floor nurse for 15 years, 'Nursing is the bedpan of medicine--we catch all the crap!'".
Thanks to June Pinkham, RN for her amusing contribution.
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Nurses On The Go
We'd like to congratulate Susan Hancz, RN a School Nurse from The Colony, TX for her winning submission to our "Nurses On The Go" feature. Her story about her life working with the students at the Morningside Elementary School was chosen as last quarter's winner and Susan will be receiving a $50 Visa gift check. If you would like to share an amusing or heartfelt story or just give our readers some insight into your life as a nurse, we would like to here from you. Its always nice for those who may work in a completely different nursing capacity to hear from others what their job entails. Who knows, you may entice someone to finally make that job switch into a different area of nursing expertise because they read your story. All submittals should be between 500 and 800 words. To submit a story, send an email with the subject line Nurses On The Go story submission to info@nurse-recruiter.com
Violence Against Nurses An Increasing Issue
Among all the other difficulties nurses deal with in their day to day work, violence against nursing staff is becoming an increasing concern. In fact, nationally crimes against nurses and health care workers are as common as assaults on correctional and police officers.
One Massachusetts nurse was confronted by an angry patient who not only dug her nails into her but threatened her children. Another time the same nurse was assaulted by an H.I.V. infected patient and ended up with the patients blood on her. Violence against nursing staff is seen often in the ER, where many patients are either intoxicated, frustrated with long wait times or both. Nurses maintain that an increase in violence in today's society and the fact that handguns are easier to obtain, along with a decrease in treatment options to psychiatric patients due to budget cuts are more factors which have led to the increase in violence against the staff. Nurses have reported dealing with with verbal abuse, being kicked, spit upon and assaulted.
Many of these assaults on nursing staff go unreported. In addition, some hospital administrators seem to be reluctant to acknowledge unruly incidents. Nursing advocates maintain that, in the past, nurses were encouraged to just deal with violence against them as if it were part of the job. Some nurses may be afraid to report an incident, fearing it will show up as a negative comment on their performance evaluation as not being able to handle a patient.
Some hospitals have made security guards less obvious by having them wear suits and ties instead of uniforms. While this is done in an effort to make hospitals appear more friendly, some say it has helped with the increase in patient violence.
Nurses maintain a more active presence of security officials, along with violence protection training which would include recognizing a potentially violent situation, are among efforts to help curtail this increasing problem. Other hospitals have gone a step further. For example, the University of Utah Medical Center has an armed police officer in the ER 24 hours a days along with security personnel. In addition, when a crime victim is brought into the ER and the perpetrator has not been apprehended, the ER is put into a lockdown.
With more attention being given to this issue in recent years, more nurses are being encouraged to report any incidents and more hospitals are implementing or increasing training to combat workplace violence and enhance employee and patient safety.
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