Violence against nurses is escalating.
#healthcare
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/healthcare-workers-protections-visiting-nurses-death/3243528/
@slapout
A shorter list would be "what's right with people"
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@CinnamonGirlE Sadly, true.
@CinnamonGirlE Jesus what happened to the good old days when all you had to worry about was flying staplers, surgical implements and unauthorized breast exams?
@MidnightRider
Correct. And that was just from the doctor! 😉
@CinnamonGirlE Oh I know, guess how they treated the "button pushers". Even the nurses loved to pretend we knew nothing. So glad I was hit by a car, I would have been on the RR tracks withing a few more years of that nonsense.
@MidnightRider
I know. I saw how they treated them. Like us. Minions for their service. I miss some of it, but glad overall to be out.
@CinnamonGirlE One neurosurgeon was a total dick. A patient unhappy with his outcomes went to this guy's home, rang the bell and shot him dead. Zero effs were given by me.
@CinnamonGirlE
I talked to a nurse at the emergency clinic a couple of weeks ago, and she has started taking Defense Martial Art classes.
So sad it has come to this. 😥
@Maude
Retired now, but plenty of my own stories. I have many friends and fam still in healthcare. It's ramping up, kind of like the rest of the world.
@CinnamonGirlE @Maude My second to last radiology gig before retirement: " Why are you taking so long to get that woman off the table"? She was 90 and dizzy, I paused before transfer to the wheelchair. Hey Dr. A why don't you come out to the parking lot and we can come to an agreement out there?
@MidnightRider @Maude
I had a few surgeons who would help us position before surgery. But the vast majority just wanted to scream about how long it was taking you. I actually had one tell me, but it was all about them. Everything needed to focus on and roll around them. He was dead serious. Pretty sure he was the one that couldn't understand why plane couldn't be held for him at a connecting flight.
@CinnamonGirlE @Maude Dr. Mithell used to do a stand squat. My first day at a paid gig " that means doctor is ready for his chair". I'm telling you true I would have been back twisting wrenches had that wonderful woman not mangled me with a Buick, a saint I tell ya! 😂
@MidnightRider @Maude
We had an eye surgeon that always did that. And more. Better yet, you had to adjust his chair with him sitting in it!! That was fun. ANd never bothered my IBS. Not at all 😂
While fixing coffee this AM it occurred to me that AI could revolutionize medicine - or turn it into something of a dystopian nightmare. I wonder which. Sadly my money is on the later.
@Maude @CinnamonGirlE Well now, I guess I'll have to introduce a future profession to my grandson. He has the heart, and the Black Belt. 😣
It's a shame. Every health care facility I've been to lately has a sign warning how rude/threatening/etc behavior won't be tolerated. A couple have a 'no weapons allowed inside' posted on the entrance door. When adults need instructing like a child you know something's wrong.
I have a couple of friends who work with dementia patients and regularly get assaulted by the patients--verbally, physically, sexually. They always have marks and bruises. And it's treated as normal and part of the job.
@tyghebright @Maude
Absolutely. That's just a given at this point. And the bad part is that you could actually kind of see it with the dementia patients!
Yes it is to an extent inevitable, but there's more that can be done to help. One thing is to be more flexible with their time, allowing them to walk away for a bit and take breaks.
Usually, they're so short-staffed that these things happen and they just have to keep going.
@tyghebright @Maude
There is plenty more that can be done. And you hit the nail on the head. Short staffing hurts everybody except the money makers. Follow the money. Because now it's fully ensconced in medicine. And that's a bad thing.
@CinnamonGirlE My sister-in-law recently left her job as an ER nurse in North Carolina due to a stalker. Her employer would do nothing to help her. Her stalker was a fellow employee. After trying to work with HR for a couple months, and other staff helping to protect her to the car, she finally just had to leave that job, it was unsafe. Zero help from the hospital leadership.
@SimplyZippy
I am from NC. Very upsetting. I hope she is safe now.
@CinnamonGirlE she is safe, she left the state (for other reasons). She was very angry a major hospital would not deal with stalking by a staff member to a staff member.
@SimplyZippy
I am angry at it for her, for all nurses, for society as a whole. Glad she is safe though.
Would this potentially fall under employment law? i'd check..
@Museek it really should. However she is worried about retribution like being blacklisted (also illegal). She just moved to what she felt was safer employment, then life happened and she left the state of his year.
@CinnamonGirlE WTF is wrong with people!