As violence continues to escalate against healthcare workers, another attack has taken place in Dallas, Texas. A man entered the ER at Baylor Scott and White’s downtown hospital. While in the ER, the unidentified man held a hospital employee at knifepoint for a short period of time.
The officer said Trayon was shirtless and was swaying back and forth, trying to open a door- the officer asked Trayon to sit down so he could safely approach, but Trayon reportedly refused. The officer then had to deploy his taser three times to gain control of the suspect.
The CEO of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas said the suspect shot two maternity ward nurses. An officer in the area saw the suspect with a gun and fired a single shot, hitting Hernandez.
Workplace violence inside emergency rooms has more than doubled between 2011 and 2020 and, officials say, penalties do not deter attacks.
Police have launched an investigation after a woman was raped by a stranger in an NHS hospital car park in broad daylight. Security has been stepped up at Royal Liverpool Hospital after the woman was sexually assaulted in its NCP multi-storey car park on Sunday, September 18.
24 hours after a nurse was brutally stabbed in the lobby of Mission Community Hospital in Panorama City, much is still unknown about the attacker or why he targeted the 49-year-old man.
“Clinical staff especially bear the brunt of it and that’s why you’re seeing reports all this year of violence against clinical staff” he said. “Hospitals throughout the country, not just this country, but other countries as well, have had to now start ramping up their security even more so than there was before.”
Nurses are demanding that hospital CEOs put Patients Before Profits and implement safe levels of staffing, solutions to nurse retention and workplace violence, and wage increases that reflect inflation and the escalating cost of living.
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