Chief Healthcare Executive March 25, 2024
Leaders from groups representing physicians and nurses went to Capitol Hill to draw attention to the dangerous incidents in hospitals.
Doctors and nurses have bemoaned the violence they are seeing in emergency departments, and they have taken that message to Capitol Hill.
Leaders from the Emergency Nurses Association, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the American Nurses Association met with congressional staffers last week to draw more attention to the issue.
The Emergency Nurses Association surveyed its members this year, and found more than half (56%) said they had been physically assaulted, verbally harassed or threatened with violence within the past 30 days.
Chris Dellinger, president of the Emergency Nurses Association, said in a statement that she’s experienced violence...
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