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violence. The union calls violence towards nurses in hospitals an epidemic. Members of National Nurses United protested and called for Florida lawmakers to help stop the increasing number of assaults aimed at nurses on the job. Nurses said some hospitals in Tampa Bay don't have ―No Weapons" signs posted. Other hospitals, they said, don't have a policy when a patient or family gets violent. The union representative said they are drafting the bill now, but need a lawmaker to sponsor it.


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Workplace Violence in Hospitals Hits Close to Home By Ellen Pinkoss Cobb


Unfortunately, workplace violence occurs all too often, in all too many types of workplaces. This week it occurred close to home, at Brigham & Women‘s Hospital, the hospital where both my daughters were born. A cardiac surgeon was shot to death, apparently by a man whose mother had been the doctor‘s patient before she had passed away in November 2014. Here, police and hospital staff had been trained to respond to an "active shooter" situation. According to coverage, the response was swift and well coordinated. The shooter was quickly found in an examination room, dead of a self- inflicted gunshot.


Health care workers nationwide are nearly four times as likely to be injured on the job as the general working population, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which states that hospital workers have an estimated rate of 8.3 assaults per 10,000 workers compared to an estimated 2 assaults per 10,000 workers in the overall work environment. The 2014 International Healthcare Security & Safety Foundation Healthcare Crime Survey reported that the number of violent crimes in United States and Canadian hospitals rose 25% between 2012 and 2013.


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When Grief Turns Violent: How Should Clinicians Know And React When Family Members Blame Them For Adverse Outcomes?


This week's shooting of a cardiovascular surgeon in Boston, reportedly by a patient whose mother had died while under the surgeon's care, again raised questions about family members of patients with adverse outcomes and why some do not merely become distraught but actively blame the medical staff.


How can providers tell when a family member's grief is likely to turn into hostility toward the medical personnel? What can providers do when they think they are being blamed for adverse outcomes, and what can providers do in addition to trying to improve communication with family members -- for example, offer grief counseling?


The following medical professionals were asked these questions and offer their insights on ‗knowing the signs, having a plan and help familymembers with grief. ─ Robert C. Solomon, MD, FACEP, core faculty, emergency medicine residency, Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and assistant professor (adjunct), emergency medicine at Temple University school of Medicine in Philadelphia


─ Mary Jo Assi, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FNP- BC, director, nursing practice and work environment, American Nurses Association in Silver Spring, Md.


─ Lewis Rosenbaum, MD, vice chief, medical services, department of internal medicine at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich.


─ Connie Barden, RN, MSN, CCRN-E, CCNS, chief clinical officer, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) in Aliso Veijo, Calif.


─ Matthew F. Powers, MS, BSN, RN, MICP, CEN, president, Emergency Nurses Association in Des Plaines, Ill.


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