Chief Healthcare Executive April 5, 2024
The Emergency Nurses Association released a survey that sheds more insight on the violent and volatile situations nurses routinely encounter.
The majority of nurses in emergency departments say they have been physically assaulted or threatened.
To be clear, they aren’t talking about their entire careers. Most emergency nurses say they’ve been attacked or encountered aggressive behavior in the previous month.
More than half (56%) of emergency nurses said they were attacked or threatened with violence in the past 30 days, according to a new survey released Thursday by the Emergency Nurses Association.
Nurses said they were kicked, slapped and punched. Others said they were head-butted, stabbed with a pencil or hit with thrown objects.
One nurse said a patient threatened...
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