A nurse recovers from her injuries after being attacked at Vancouver General Hospital on March 13, while the nurses union calls him the latest example of violence against nurses at the workplace.
A coastal health spokesman in Vancouver confirmed that the health care provider and another patient were assaulted in the hospital that day, and the patient who was attacked there was treated while the nurse is now recovering at home.
Adrian Gere, head of the BC Nurse Union, said that the attack occurred in the psychiatry unit for internal patients in the hospital and called for more security workers there.
“A horrific incident occurred on March 13,” she said. “One of our members … a new nurse in her career, suffocated unconscious and had to drag her behind the nursing station to safety by her colleagues.”
“The person who strangled her was sick.”
Gear says that the internal patients units in the Psychiatry in VGH are in a separate building, and it takes several minutes to reach security staff from the emergency department.
“This is unacceptable,” she said.
“These are sick … some of them have great behaviors,” she added. “They have a well -documented history of violence, and the employer must do more to keep their employees safe and other patients.”
The number of attacks on nurses
In the past few months, Gear pointed to many attacks on nurses in hospitals by patients and called for more security officers in the workplace to prevent nurses from leaving the profession.
These officers are employees who are trained to anticipate and abandon health care, according to the boycott.
Gear said that there was a stabbing in VGH only a few months ago, in addition to a condition in which a man aimed at the sickle at Eagle Ridge Hospital in Port Modi.
“What will it be in a way that will actually take one of my organs at work to make some objective changes?” The President of the Federation asked.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health said in a statement that it had nearly 750 of the full -time security guards working through 30 health care facilities as of last spring.
They added that the ministry is looking into opportunities to expand the additional hospital facilities.
CBC News Worksafebc, the workplace organizer, called the boycott, to see if he was notified of the attack.