Tougher penalties needed for those who attack nurses, says IMNO President | Newstalk

Tougher penalties are needed to deter people from attacking nurses and other healthcare workers, the President of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has said.reported over 7,300 physical, verbal or sexual assaults to the HSE in the last 18 monthsStaff said that things were “very, very bad” in Irish hospitals and described being spat at, threatened and physically assaulted.“Sometimes you go home and say to yourself, no money in the world is worth this,” one said.

“The pay is not even great at the moment so a lot of people have left and can’t cope. It is just a lot of pressure on them to try and do their job as well and they just can’t.” Nurses alone reported 4,420 incidents to the National Incident Management System and IMNO President Karen McGowan said she sees abusive behaviour all the time.“People were getting quite verbally abusive and that is part of your role in the emergency department. You’re trying to defuse situations before people get to that volatile state.”“In Australia the law is an awful lot stronger,” she said.

“The penalties are greater and I think that does need to happen and definitely I’d be in favour of that.The HSE told“The organisation will continue to place an emphasis on the management of work-related aggression and violence in 2022.”

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

worked security in a hospital in dublin years ago....the staff in hospital's do not get paid enough from what i seen... hospital staff were there to try and help people but some animals would spit (they had hepatitis a and b HIV) bite and try to assault them...was unreal

It’s a general escalating trend, the aggression starts on the street and the aggressors get drunk and fall around the place, they then threaten staff in hospitals just as they threaten staff in retail when they steal drink from off-licenses, it is coming to a head

Agreed,healthcare industry does not do enough to protect nurses Globally.

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