Surveys find widespread violence against nurses and other hospital caregivers

Nearly 40% of employees in California emergency rooms said they had been physically assaulted on the job in the previous year

The patient was drunk, naked and covered in blood when he burst out of his emergency room cubicle around 2 a.m., brandishing scissors. He lunged at two nurses and began chasing them.



L.A. Times – California | Local News

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