Sounding the alarm (again), or making it a federal crime to assault a health care facility employee isn’t addressing anything. Emergency rooms are the dumping ground for psychological and drug-related issues not addressed by the criminal justice system or the state’s responsibilities in mental health care. Most violence in the ED doesn’t meet with any corrective behavior, except “sedate and discharge”. Three-quarters of the incidents happen in the ED, and a majority of the offenders should have already been in the care of the poorly funded criminal justice or mental health systems. Violent people are being dropped into hospitals that are ill-equipped to deal with them. Anyway, rant over.
ANA, ENA & ACEP Sound the Alarm on Violence Against Nurses
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