Workplace Violence in Healthcare
Workplace violence in healthcare is at an unprecedented level. In fact, nearly 75% of workplace assaults occur in a healthcare setting. To understand how prevalent this issue is, we’ve compiled several news articles on incidents that recently occurred.
Epidemic of violence against healthcare workers must end
NC hospital exec: ‘Ugly epidemic of violence’ against healthcare workers must end
Hospital workers report increasing workplace violence
Lakeridge hospital workers report increasing workplace violence since the pandemic
Attack on nurse prompts Duke Health to intensify security
Duke Health is ramping up security at its hospitals following an attack that left an emergency room nurse unconscious and with facial fractures.
Rise in violent incidents and injuries force staff to quit
Rise in violent incidents and injuries force staff to quit at NYC psychiatric ward
After stabbing, nurses say SSM ignored pleas for security
After stabbing, nurses say SSM ignored pleas for security: ‘This was 100% preventable’
Man charged with shooting into Florida hospital
Police have charged a suspect with firing into the fourth-floor window of Broward Health Coral Springs (Fla.) hospital from his car, CBS Miami reported July 7.
2 Nurses, Doctor Stabbed Inside LA Hospital
Three Encino Hospital Medical Center clinicians were stabbed by a patient asking for medical treatment for anxiety.
3 employees stabbed at hospital in LA County
The initial call at 3:50 p.m. reported an assault with a deadly weapon in the ER, which is where the victims were stabbed, police said.
At least 4 people killed in a Tulsa hospital campus shooting
The gunman is also dead, police said. Authorities believe the shooter’s gunshot wound was self-inflicted, Tulsa Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish said in the news conference. Several people were also wounded, though no one has life-threatening injuries, police Capt. Richard Meulenberg told CNN on Wednesday night.
Security guard killed in shooting at Ohio hospital
A security guard at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton was killed after an inmate grabbed the guard’s gun and shot him. Dayton police say the prisoner was being treated in the emergency room around 9:45 a.m. when he was able to get the gun.
More than 72,000 assaults on NHS staff took place over 4 years
but very few were reported to police, Sky News can reveal
Lockdown lifted at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
after large police presence in downtown Chicago