When a healthcare worker gets assaulted ,not much happens. They can be out of work for weeks or months and no one cares except they are short staffed........

Has this happened to your facility ?

Many police,Mayors of towns & cities are trying to work to get the violence in their cities manageable. The gangs are fighting ,people are getting hurt and dying. There is so much crime out in the street.
This is all very sad but very frightening. It scares me to think that with all the focus on the violence, that no one has thought about where the injured will be brought. The focus is get these folks off the streets. BUT if they are injured where do you think they will go? They will go to Emergency rooms. Are the emergency rooms prepared for all this? Can one security guard handle it? Do you have security in your ER? Can your security touch a patient/customer?
What are you going to do??????

www.stophealthcareviolence.org

Sheila Wilson R.N. BSN MPH