There are 3,063,162 licensed registered nurses in the United States. That's how many nurses that are licensed,but there are only •  84.8% of the RN population, or an estimated 2,596,599 RNs, were employed in nursing
Men are what percentage of the total nursing population?
•  Approximately 294,063 RNs are men – only 9.6% of the total nursing population.
What is the average age of an RN in the United States?
Only 10.6% of all RNs are under the age of 30. The average age of the RN population in the United States is 46 years.
Are male nurses generally younger than female nurses?
•  The median age for male RNs licensed in 2000 or later is 35, compared with 31 for female RNs.
Source: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health, 2009, http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov.

I was interested in the number of nurses because I felt this profession had some power!
Why are we allowing ourselves to be assaulted? WHY are we not working with the "powers to be" to help change the culture? Why are we not as a team looking at our community and learning what THEY need.
I feel if we knew the community ,we could get a better understanding of who we deal with and how better to serve them.

 

Nurses are our Guardian Angels

 

 

Nurses Around The World! You Are So Awesome!! -Keep up the good work!

 

We need to work together and stop the violence

Know your patient and you are ahead of the violence!

This is a simple trick to keep the violence down, in your place of work. It will take a while to work on it, however when it is completed, it will only take maintenance work.
The top item to work on, is communication.
If all the powers to be, sat down and talked with each other and stated what they really need, it would be grand.
 The people in administration would state what they need, to make  the changes and keep the staff safe.
The healthcare workers would speak to administration and tell them about the assaults ,physical, verbal , emotional and any other assault that has happened .Speaking how they see the problem and what they feel that could be a solution.
Now the question is HOW do they do it?
First there has to be a commitment on all parties. This isn't a job for one person....
Who are the people that assault the staff? Patients? The patients family members,? The patients friends?  anyone else?????
How has administration been notified about the assaults in the past? Do the healthcare workers feel that they are listened too?
Are the healthcare workers given administration enough knowledge that they can see an issue?
The whole point is>>>>>>>>>>>
What does the staff need to do ,to have administration pay attention and do what's needed ?
What does administration need to do for the staff ,to let them know that administration is supporting them and understand that being assaulted is not part of their job.
Being safe in a job is not asking to much.
Comments are always welcomed.

This sign was seen in a clinic Bellows falls VT. This clinic wants there customers to know their staff is very important.
Why can't we all have signage like this?

sign in Cox Medical center north Springfield MO.

Assaulted at work ",I never thought being assaulted would change my life so much"

Before I write about an easy solution to some violence, I would like to show another video about a Nurse that was assaulted and how this assault changed her life.

WWW.Stophealthcareviolence.org

Nurses are heros! Public opinion

I put this video on my blog to let the readers know ,the public doesn't understand that healthcare providers are in danger, nor does the public realize we get injured.
The other comment this gentle made is true "NURSES ARE HERO'S" and as a nurse I would remind you healthcare workers are not punching bags (as stated by the MNA)
This noise in this video is from the wind and I apologize for that.