Eric Sean Clay, MBA, MSc, CHPA, CPP’s Post

Taking a Stand: Combating Workplace Violence Against Nurses in Healthcare As a physician, I'm deeply concerned about the recent reports highlighting the rise in violence against nurses in healthcare settings. This issue not only compromises the safety of our nursing colleagues but also impacts patient care and the overall morale of the healthcare workforce. We need to take action to address this alarming trend. Implementing effective de-escalation training programs, establishing rapid response teams, and reinforcing clear policies are essential to creating safer work environments. Additionally, supporting legislative initiatives to bolster safety protections for healthcare workers is crucial. Let's stand in solidarity with our nursing and healthcare colleagues and work collaboratively to combat workplace violence in healthcare. Together, we can ensure that every healthcare team member feels safe and respected while providing essential care to patients. I urge my fellow healthcare professionals to join me in advocating for legislative measures that prioritize the safety and well-being of all frontline workers. Let's contact our representatives, raise community awareness, and support organizations working towards legislative changes.   Together, we can make our voices heard and enact meaningful policies that safeguard the invaluable individuals who dedicate their lives to caring for others.   #LegislativeAction #HealthcareSafety #WorkplaceProtection https://lnkd.in/eKKXF2eu

Canadian nurses are reporting that workplace violence in healthcare settings is the highest it’s ever been. A recent attack on a nurse has resulted in a court case, lingering effects of a concussion, and a renewed conversation on the need for increased communication and location tools to protect people on the front line of hospitals, long-term care, and in-patient services. Tools like #RTLS-equipped communication systems can provide assurance and safety to nurses and other healthcare employees to ensure attacks can be avoided or de-escalated and that injured or trapped nurses can be found quickly. #healthcaresafety #healthcare

Of course, they do. Instead of strengthening our need to make the nursing home industry more accountable and rid itself of the toxic workplace, low pay, and inferior clinical outcomes that this industry has been saddled with way before Covid it wants to keep lowering the bar and expects that job seekers will want to work in this industry. Inspection reports continue to find homes leaving residents lying in their feces, suffering severe bedsores and falls, contracting infections, choking on food while unattended, or ending up back in a hospital for preventable reasons. Some nursing homes overuse psychotropic medications to pacify residents because they do not have enough workers to attend to them. #nursinghome #SNFs #healthcaretranformation #poorclinicaloutcomes #toxicworkplace #geriatriccare #nursestaffingmandates

Reported assaults against nurses increased 5% across the United States in 2023, according to a new report. “Safety in healthcare 2024,” a report released last week by Press Ganey, a company that analyzes healthcare data and surveys patients and employees, shows the rate of reported assaults climbed from 2.59 per 100 nursing personnel in 2022 to 2.71 last year, amounting to nearly 17,000 assaults — a record high. Most reported events occurred in psychiatric units, followed by the emergency department, adult, pediatric, and lastly, perioperative units. While the findings are concerning, the rise may be partly due to an overall willingness to report assaults as the industry increasingly focuses on workplace safety culture and awareness, the report says. Employee perceptions of their organization caring about their safety improved significantly, up +0.03 to 4.15 out of five. #patientgeneratedviolence #workplaceviolence International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety (IAHSS) ASIS International

🚨 National Nurses United Report Details Workplace Violence Impacting the Healthcare Staffing Crisis 🚨 National Nurses United, with nearly 225,000 members nationwide, is the largest union and professional organization of direct-care registered nurses in the United States and a strong, progressive voice for nurses, patients, and healthcare workers worldwide. The latest survey data from NNU reports a stark reality: an alarming 19.2% of nurses have either changed roles or left their jobs due to workplace violence. Even more concerning, 37.2% are contemplating leaving the profession altogether. These statistics underscore the urgent need for action to protect our frontline healthcare workers. It's distressing to learn that nurses are enduring severe physical harm as a result of workplace violence, influencing their decisions to depart from their roles. Organizations must prioritize the safety and well-being of the healthcare workforce to ensure they can continue to provide the critical care our communities rely on. Nurses and healthcare professionals, what measures does your organization have in place to prevent workplace violence? #WorkplaceSafety #HealthcareStaffingCrisis #ProtectOurNurses https://lnkd.in/e2mnSF2

Addressing the rise in reported assaults against nurses is crucial for ensuring a safe work environment in healthcare settings. #nursing #nursessafety #safeworkenvironments #healthcaresettings #workplaceviolence #violenceinhealthcare #nonescalation #deescalation #healthcareriskmanagement #nursing #healthcareprofessionals #healthcareorganization #conflictmanagementtraining #saferenvironmentsofcare #healthyworkenvironments #healthcareworkers

Yesterday's Globe & Mail article should give pause to policymakers who are trying solve Ontario’s staff shortages in long-term care homes by simply hiring more nurses and PSWs. Recruitment needs to go hand-in-hand with a more robust and holistic approach to looking after our health care workers, otherwise we simply won’t be able to retain them. That’s what our submission to the Models of Care Innovation Fund is all about. We have partnered with the City of Toronto Seniors Services and Long-Term Care (SSLTC) in our submission for funding to help pilot a rollout of occupational health nurses in two of the city’s 10 long-term care homes to enhance recruitment and retention by creating a safer and healthier work environment. It’s what’s desperately needed if we are going to meet the target of four hours of direct care residents receive. Otherwise we will be faced with ongoing staff shortages in long-term care.  Ontario Ministry of Long-Term Care | Ministère des Soins de longue durée de l'Ontario Ontario Occupational Health Nurses Association (OOHNA) David Lamb , Jennifer Dockery Manager, SSLTC

I take no pleasure in sharing this because poor staffing equals suffering, #misdiagnosis, and #death. I have seen it ALL. Unfortunately, the ONLY thing that these groups understand is money, transactions, and tort. How do I know? I've taken the steps to ask and find out. I've taken on Goliath. 👊🏼 👇🏼 I've been admitted and seen overworked #nurses failing their jobs because either they have not had a break in days or their #morale is gone, and they are physically and mentally shot. I was admitted 14 days in October of 2020, and I not only was a #victim of misdiagnosis, but after I was stabilized, I actually asked the nurses how they were managing. Every single one of them had signs of PTSD, exhaustion, and frustration. How do you perform under those conditions? How do patients without caregivers keeping a watchful eye manage, and do we track outcomes? I'd love to see the statistics. 👇🏼 At the end of 2022, when my Dad began showing acute pain from organ failure, I asked for pain meds. I was told it would be 3 hours due to a shift change, and it wasn't even narcotics; it was Tylenol. That's not an acceptable answer. I could have driven to Massachusetts and back before that. 👇🏼 In the new ruling, the arbitrator found persistent understaffing on both day and night shifts that had not improved over the previous six months. In fact, only five full-time nurses were hired during that period. In addition to the #financial remedy, the arbitrator ordered Morningside management to hire up to the 94 full-time equivalents (FTEs) required, provide break relief and pay the overtime incentives owed to nurses during the next pay period. 👇🏼 The ruling found nurses worked understaffed shifts. Management was ordered to pay nearly $934,000 in the Morningside Emergency Department, more than $957,000 in the Sinai West labor and delivery unit, and more than $240,000 in the Mount Sinai Hospital 11 C oncology unit. #findyourwhy #patientadvocacy #nurse #healthcare #sickcare #bigpharma #nurseshortage #cancer #chf #ED https://lnkd.in/eKRXyguF.

Despite the opening of almost 60 urgency care centres, emergency departments continue to be under increasing pressure. A reflection of a number of factors, including increasing demand, inflation, increasing out of pocket medical expenses. We look forward to the outcome of the Health Department’s review of the sustainability (current crisis) of private hospitals, so that Australia can continue to maintain a healthy public and private system.

It’s no secret that nursing is a difficult job. The demands of patient care are physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting, and critical staffing shortages and lack of resources exacerbate it. What makes it even worse is that these valuable frontline caregivers experience violence in the workplace at an astounding rate. Check out our latest blog to learn how to help keep critical nursing staff safe in the workplace: https://lnkd.in/gXnMnm8x #healthcare #nursesafety #enterprisemobility