Please read it is really important ,It could happen to you if you are not safe at work!



I am saddened by this story, a nurse goes to work and gets stabbed!!!!  How and why does this happen. If you can about healthcare workers read this story. The stabbings took place out in Calif. ( lets not forget about the nurse in Texas or anyone else that has been assaulted) . Could it have happened in your hospital? http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2014/04/23/nurses-push-for-better-hospital-safety-after.html

This really doesn't have to happen if we worked together to keep our places safe


www.stophealthcareviolence.org

Sheila Wilson R.N. BSN MPH

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

I am sending the link to our second interview. Dr. Charles Anderson and I were interviewed by Jeanne White social connections host of PWR internet radio.
The interview was of solutions to help stop the violence. Please listen to some solutions and add yours. Thank You

http://tinyurl.com/mcntwok

I have written above healthcare violence , spoke on the radio , given lectures and have traveled in and out of our country doing the same thing. I feel like John Chapman AKA Johnny Appleseed I hope I am planting seeds to let healthcare workers know IT IS NOT PART OF THEIR JOB IT ISN'T IN YOUR JOB DESCRIPTION ( IS IT?). Every where has violence and it all seems to be growing stronger, as healthcare workers we are strapped ,we are the ones that are restrained ,we have been put in such a position that whatever the patient or customer wants they get and if they aren't satisfied the healthcare workers are to blame!
On April 11 2014 I was interviewed with Dr Charles C Anderson   on the PWR internet radio station with Lillian Cauldwell the show lasted one hour and it has a lot of information. Please listen and send feedback.
Dr Anderson and I will be interviewed again on PWR internet radio by social connections with Jeanne White. We will be discussing on solutions to our issue of healthcare violence and ways to prevent it!
I will sent you the link once it is up on the station.
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Thank you all that support this
www.stophealthcareviolence.org
Sheila Wilson R.N.BSN MPH

this is the link to Dr Anderson and my interview with Lillian Cauldwell on healthcare violence


https://www.pwrnetworkllc.org/cauldwell-20140411/

Should we tell anyone of the "dirty little secret we never talk about"?

This was a random video that I took. I don't know who he is and wanted to know if the public knew healthcare workers got assaulted. In this one minute video he says it all. He states nurses are hero'a and , I agree NURSES are Hero's. WE do have to remember ,we as nurses don't work alone....There are many hero's in the healthcare field!


Sheila Wilson R.N.BSN MPH

www.stophealthcareviolence.org

This could happen to you,are you prepared?

I was there the night this emergency room nurse was assaulted. She truly couldn't believe the patient hit her" I had taken care of him before". She felt she was fine to go back to work and was surprised that a co worker felt she needed to get checked by the physician. When she was told to go home ,she was very concerned because "what about my patients?" "I haven't seen them,I need to take care of them" This woman is a great nurse,she is compassionate,kind,smart,non judgmental and surprised that she was sent home. This nurse didn't come back to work in the ER due to her injuries when she was assaulted. We lost a great nurse. The assault of a man that was angry at his wife and son that escalated into the emergency room and he alone changed this nurses career.

All incident reports were made out and the police were called.


Sheila Wilson R.N.BSN MPH

www.stophealthcareviolence.org

A question was asked to me about one of the blogs .How can we get the CEO and administration to work with us when they don't even know who we are and don't want to know us or ???
Great question ,
 I needed to ask myself, doesn't administration know who their nurses are?
I can remember one of the CEO's would work though the unit and say Hello to each and every one of us, I knew a chief nursing officer that spoke to us any time she saw us and used our first names. I also remember the CNO (that term wasn't used at that time) had her office on the first floor and had a open door policy.

BUT that was then and today is now!

So what could be the answer?

In the last 2 years I worked at the hospitals, I never saw the CEO's . The CNF was seen only once in a while and didn't address the staff unless forced too. But does that really matter?

When the chips are down you work together as a team or you do nothing.

 The example that stands out in my mind, is the time that 3 nurses ( myself included) knew we needed to get a security guard in the emergency room full time. That was when the hospital had workplace violence meetings. We asked for a 1/2 hour at the meeting and wanted to show a power point. The administration stated yes and I am sure they had no idea what we were proposing. We worked with  a nurse that was a shop steward at another hospital for 15 years,nothing would throw this nurse off her focus when it came to management. WE presented our case and we were able to get a security guard Friday and Saturday to start with and only for four hours. That wasn't what we wanted but it was a start. We asked everyone to write out their incident reports, take the time off we were allowed and make a lot of noise about being assaulted. Within a short time we had a security guard 24/7.
If we as nurses don't make the noise ,don't make out incident reports, don't talk about the assault with each other what can you expect to happen????????????? Hospitals that have a union should be so verbal and loud that the union has to do something .The union works for you ,make them work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you are assaulted and out of work and can never go back and you didn't have a paper trail,you will have nothing.
Get to know your CEO and CNF make them accountable. Does your organization have any policy on keeping their staff safe? Try and find it!


www.stophealthcareviolence.org

Sheila Wilson R.N.BSN MPH



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