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Psychiatric hospitals can be difficult places to work. Though many doctors, nurses,...
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According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, incidents of
Workplace violence are 4 TIMES more common in healthcarethan in private industry. Most assaults come from patients and patients' families. Violence is assumed to be part of the job.
25% of nurses experienced workplace violence each year
While the healthcare sector makes up just 9 percent of the overall U.S. workforce, it experiences nearly as many violent injuries as all other industries combined.
Healthcare workers
accounted for
73%of all nonfatal
workplace injuries
and illnesses due to violence in 2018.
Sources:
U.S. Bureau of Labor of Statistics
Workplace Violence in Healthcare, 2018
NPR Health
Facing Escalating Workplace Violence,
Hospital Employees Have Had Enough
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Reduction in violent incidents
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"According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, incidents of serious workplace violence are four times more common in health care than in private industry. Most assaults come from patients and patients'families."
Article: Facing Escalating Workplace Violence, Hospital Employees Have Had Enough
By Marlene Harris-Taylor, April 8, 2019
NPR Health
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Many health care workers say the physical and verbal abuse comes primarily from patients, some of whom are disoriented because of illness or from medication. Sometimes nurses and doctors are abused by family members who are on edge because their loved one is so ill.