Emergency Room Nurses Face Increasing Danger
Emergency Room Nurses Face Increasing Danger
Emergency nurses are starting to get hurt.
According to the Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services International Conference held in Berlin this year, 98 percent of emergency room nurses in the Unites States reported verbal harassment and 67 percent reported physical violence.
While in Canada, 84 percent of the nurses in the emergency department witnessed verbal harassment once in every shift. While there are 90 percent of them claimed to experience verbal abuse at least once a week. In Australia, there are 70 percent of nurses who experience violence at least five times a week.
Emergency room nurses are falling victims to increasing violence in the emergency department of hospitals.
The Emergency Nurses Association conducted a study and 86 percent of all the ER nurses involved in the survey had some form of violence committed against them while they are on duty.
Last 2005, the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there are 4,000 hospital employees assaulted while working in the ER. In the same year, ER doctors in Michigan reported that 28 percent has experienced physical assault while 75 percent received verbal assaults.
Patients themselves could be the perpetrators of this violence occurring in emergency departments. Intoxication and long delay in the waiting room are common things that might fire up a patient.
Based on one of the largest studies made on the issue made on 2004 in Minnesota, patients committed almost all of the physical assaults and two-thirds of the verbal harassments.
Visitors as well as physicians and other staff members are responsible for the other assaults and harassments. It is only possible to receive aggression from the patient's family members. If the patient was involved in a traumatic incident, his family members' anxiety levels could be very high and may overwhelm them.
The most common assaults against nurses could sometimes
Emergency nurses are starting to get hurt.
According to the Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services International Conference held in Berlin this year, 98 percent of emergency room nurses in the Unites States reported verbal harassment and 67 percent reported physical violence.
While in Canada, 84 percent of the nurses in the emergency department witnessed verbal harassment once in every shift. While there are 90 percent of them claimed to experience verbal abuse at least once a week. In Australia, there are 70 percent of nurses who experience violence at least five times a week.
Emergency room nurses are falling victims to increasing violence in the emergency department of hospitals.
The Emergency Nurses Association conducted a study and 86 percent of all the ER nurses involved in the survey had some form of violence committed against them while they are on duty.
Last 2005, the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there are 4,000 hospital employees assaulted while working in the ER. In the same year, ER doctors in Michigan reported that 28 percent has experienced physical assault while 75 percent received verbal assaults.
Patients themselves could be the perpetrators of this violence occurring in emergency departments. Intoxication and long delay in the waiting room are common things that might fire up a patient.
Based on one of the largest studies made on the issue made on 2004 in Minnesota, patients committed almost all of the physical assaults and two-thirds of the verbal harassments.
Visitors as well as physicians and other staff members are responsible for the other assaults and harassments. It is only possible to receive aggression from the patient's family members. If the patient was involved in a traumatic incident, his family members' anxiety levels could be very high and may overwhelm them.
The most common assaults against nurses could sometimes