Chief Healthcare Executive August 16, 2023
Nurses are being assaulted and treated with hostility with alarming regularity, Terry Foster says. He calls violence in emergency departments ‘a tremendous problem.’
Terry Foster, the president of the Emergency Nurses Association, has been around a bit.
He’s been a nurse for 45 years. And he tells Chief Healthcare Executive® that he doesn’t recall the level of violence that nurses are seeing in emergency departments.
“Violence in the emergency department for nurses is a tremendous problem,” Foster says. “It’s something that I’ve never seen before at this level. And especially since COVID, there is a level of incivility that is very troubling to me, and I don’t know where it came from, I honestly don’t.”
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