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Last April, when an 81-year-old hospice patient was found dead in his room at a Warren nursing home, suffocated by pillow stuffing, police charged his 76-year-old roommate, who had become agitated ...
A home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house and should be fined about $161,000 ...
In the coming weeks, The Journal will be examining how authorities deal with resident-on-resident violence and abuse in nursing homes, what needs to happen to prevent these incidents from ...
"Eradication of Horizontal Violence and Bullying in Nursing". FNA Proposal for Action. Florida Nurses Association Board of Directors. Chipps, Esther (2009). Workplace Bullying and Normalization of Bullying Acts in the Nursing Workplace. Midwest Nursing Research Society. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011.
Perline & Goldschmidt define two types of workplace violence: 1) Object-focused workplace violence is violence that occurs to obtain some object, such as money, drugs, jewelry, etc., and 2) non-object-focused violence, which is emotionally based, and mostly associated with anger. Anger generally requires frustration and perceived injustice.
The Carthage nursing home shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on March 29, 2009, when a gunman opened fire at Pinelake Health and Rehabilitation, a 120-bed nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina, United States. [1] The shooter, 45-year-old Robert Kenneth Stewart, killed eight people, including a nurse at the home, and wounded a ninth.
More on nursing home violence: ... a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, just over 1% of people arrested for murder in 2021 were 65 years or older. ...
The Hacienda HealthCare sexual abuse case was a high-profile sexual abuse case involving an incapacitated disabled woman who was raped many times and impregnated by a licensed practical nurse at the Hacienda HealthCare facility in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.