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Health care workers are already vulnerable to COVID-19 exposure. We shouldn't have to worry about assaults and violence, too.
A 76-year-old patient sitter has been sentenced for assaulting a 68-year-old man with the remote control for a hospital bed. On Tuesday, Dec. 10, Eleanor Flowers, of Washington, D.C., was ...
[1] [2] [9] At the psychiatry department, the violence of the patients were directed more to nurses than doctors and to women than men. [10] In a tertiary care hospital in Delhi, 40% of doctors reported being exposed to violence in the last year. The point of delivery of emergency services was the most common place of violence and verbal abuse ...
In 2014, a survey by the American Nurses Association of 3,765 nurses and nursing students found that 21% reported physical abuse, and over 50% reported verbal abuse within a 12-month period. [3] Causes for patient outbursts vary, including psychiatric diagnosis, under the influence of drugs or alcohol, [ 4 ] or subject to a long wait time. [ 5 ]
Patient abuse and neglect may occur in settings such as hospitals, [4] nursing homes, [5] clinics [6] and during home-based care. [7] Health professionals who abuse patients may be deemed unfit to practice and have their medical license removed [ 8 ] : 20 as well as facing criminal charges as well as civil cases .
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A judge ruled Thursday that Marion City Councilman Ayers Ratliff should stand trial on charges he forcibly raped a 13-year-old girl last month. Nurse: Sexual assault exam of girl 'consistent' with ...