I'm in Western Australia and I can say that Hospitals here have a zero tolerance for any violence at all. If a patient or family member starts acting up they get warned and if it continues then they are arrested and taken to the lockup. I have personally seen this happen on my last visit to the Emergency Department were a drunk man tried to punch a nurse he was arrested and put into bracelets. He was treated to make sure he was ok but police were there the whole time. Nurses are gods little workers and deserve to be treated with respect, for without nurses the whole medical world would come crashing down. I have the greatest admiration and respect for all those who have taken up a job helping those who need help.

I was a patient in a large hospital in the lower mainland in 1999 where I was assaulted by a nurse, more than once. She chose to this to me while I was so injured and sick, I couldn't fight back, except to ring for help. This nurse was still working there when I left a month later. I'm sorry nurses are being hurt but so are we, the patients, by people who should not be working in a hospital setting.

If it was politicians or judges who were often assaulted, they would do something about it!! But when it's someone else, they don't care.

I was at the hospital yesterday, and there were signs every where that said “I’m (name), and abuse is not apart of my job” it’s so sad.

Australia has implemented a zero tolerance policy to violence in hospitals, at least in my state. If someone is acting up, whether they are on drugs or psychotic, security gets called in. These patients just shout out, but that's all they can do.

I was a male nurse for 2 years. Yea this shit happens. Thats why nurses make 80k a year. We get protection. This is offensive.

I'm a nurse in the USA and I've never felt threatened by patients or their family members. We have 24 hour security guards employed by the hospital who rapidly diffuse inappropriate behavior. Anyone going through ER is screened by X-Ray and personal searches for weapons. It's also common knowledge being abusive to your nurses or doctors can greatly diminish the quality of your own care....cause and effect. I. as all nurses have worked hard to earn our degrees. I'm a BA,BSN, RN and respect is expected when treating a patient. Mental health referrals are common for difficult patients as well. Security cameras are visible and utilized. I've worked in a city hospital's ED where gang violence was the reason for their admission, the police are visible and pro active in protecting staff. If I were Canadian, I wouldn't work as a nurse. They need to unionize.

It's absolutely DISGUSTING why on earth would anybody want to assault a member of staff, when infact all they are doing is their job,also might be trying to save your lives.the scum that carry out the assaults should be refused to be dealt with. If it wasn't for the nurses, Drs people could die, so to the scum who do kick off, GTFU and Behave or get refused any kind of treatment disgusting

Somebody drugged me once at a bar and I became super psychotic/violent and got put in the full body net restraint. Took 8 staff to get me down so they could put me in. Glad I don't remember any of it kek. Bless these people for the shit they put up with!

Our society and the way we live... is driving people crazy

This is crazy. I hope I don't ever need the ER in Canada. Why aren't psychotic or violent patients sent to a separate area to be treated by mental health specialists? This isn't tolerated in any US hospital that I'm aware of. I've seen violent and disruptive patients removed from the ER of a large NY hospital. There are almost always uniformed NYPD on duty. In one instance an intoxicated man was removed by the police when he stumbled about cursing loudly and shoving hospital personnel who tried to intervene.

A lot of the time it happens on the Neurological ward and the Emergency ward in hospitals. My mom used to work on the VGH Neuro ward and had to deal with this kind off thing all the time.

Ok, honest moment. When I was 24, i developed a horrible infection in my thumb. I was hospitalized for 12 days on IV antibiotics. I went home, and about 2 weeks later, the antibiotics caused a horrible case of vertigo. I was back in the same hospital's ER, and they gave me a drug for the nausea called Reglan. It's known to cause psychotic behavior in some people. I'm that people, lbvvs. I started fighting with them, and I hit a nurse in her mouth so hard that I knocked out 2 of her teeth. 1 on top, 1 on the bottom. They sedated me pretty fast, within 2 minutes of the initial meds that caused me to act up, and I didn't wake up til the next morning. It was around noon when it happened, and I woke up confused and tied to the bed in a room around 11 am the next day. I was so confused. I didn't remember anything. I asked what happened and I was told what I'd done. I was DEVASTATED!!! I was told her name, and I contacted her while I was still in the hospital. She agreed to come to my room. I apologized sincerely and offered to pay for all the treatment she would need. She actually started crying with me because no one's ever apologized for their behavior to her before I had. I was so shocked by my actions when she told me how everything went down. I just hung my head in shame. But she forgave me immediately because she knew it was the meds and not my actual behavior. I paid for her dental care and I still check on her occasionally through social media. She always tells this story and says that she made a friend for a lifetime after getting punched in the face by her 1st.

To the nurses of Canada: We have a nurse shortage in the US & nurses are paid well. Plus, American nurses don't put up with violence. It's hard to believe there's so many nurses there that the hospital would fire you for reporting violence. Are they nuts?

Nurses deserve far better than this. Its not in the job description. It's not in the teaching of nursing. ZERO TOLERANCE! All the way.

Violent patients should be denied access to care. If they can't control their behavior then too bad.

In the US, the nurse would sue their employer for an unsafe work environment and win!

When I worked in us hospitals, violence against all providers (not just nurses) was a complex problem, as people do come in delirious, intoxicated, etc. and people in pain from a procedure will sometimes shove or hit instead of saying “stop.” Very situation-dependent. I ignored some, and also told some that if it happened a second time I could and would press charges (never did).

Omg that is so terrible especially when the nurse is only trying to help and my heart goes out to Rhonda 😔 I'm so sorry that happened to you and that should never happen to anybody. Nurses have my respect and they should be protected.

I'm surprised they allow that Mohawk! 🤣🤣😂😂

Code White's aren't just for assaults against staff, they're also used when patients are injuring themselves.

Wow very eye opening

First point: I am actually surprised that a nurse like Greg Junes is allowed to wear his hair like that to work. We were always taught to look professional when we came to work and that is far from it. Second point: In my case as a former Assistant Head Nurse from Quebec is that the biggest problem in reporting incidents of abuse by patients and how it was handled all depended on what type of Head Nurse you had. In the Laurentians, our Head Nurse would instantly handle any type of abuse if it involved her friend Nurse but for the rest of us I had to threaten to report an incident to the Safety Board as nothing was being done about a patient who kept threatening my staff that he was going to throw his hot tea at us. Then afterwards I was accused of not being a team player by this Head Nurse on top of it. We also had to deal with a man who would throw his feces at us and it took forever to get him transferred to the right hospital who dealt specifically with aggressive and mentally unstable patients. Of course this Head Nurse's friend never had to deal with this patient directly when she worked days (she sat in her office instead) so it took a lot longer then necessary. Yet when I had previously worked at The Montreal General Hospital I found that Head Nurses seemed to support their staff better there. Third point: At the age of only 44 my Nursing career of 20+ years ended when I was attacked by a patient who dislocated my left shoulder. This triggered more medical problems, depression and shoulder nerve pain that to this day I still have never mind a shoulder that is still unstable. I heard that more staff were attacked by this same patient afterwards and again it took many complaints before any type of medication was finally prescribed. I think that we as Nurses and ALL Hospital staff have to demand to have zero tolerance to any form of verbal or physical abuse/violence against us and that starts with not being afraid to report incidents and to support those who do.We teach our children not to suffer in silence when being bullied and to speak out so then why in God's name is it the opposite for Hospital workers?

We have a zero tolerance policy in our hospitals.

I swear, if Greg Jones was my nurse I would be too busy laughing at him to do anything violent.

I did security at Mount Sinai. Violent patients were my favourite

Dont Be A Nurse. . .

Please Google "nurses eat their young". Nurse-on-nurse bullying is the real cause of the nursing shortage.

Are we sure this is Canada that we are talking about?

Violence may be a problem here and I'm not doubting it this is serious.IMHO I think firefighters are at much more risk for death and injury. One person ventilating a fire wrong and boom flashover has you paralyzed. Firefighters also get serious PTSD, going into a burned business and walking on bodies. Both are problems but still I personally think firefighting is far more dangerous.

Makes me reconsider my degree nursing 😡

To the public please be kind to all nurses and care staffs. This is not an easy job. We are doing our best y render care to everybody.

People are at the complete mercy of nurses. I would say one in five nurses is a sadist. I tell people that they can decline any procedure. It never occurred to me that some resort to violence to defend themselves.

Look just kick the patients out of the hospital,stop locking them down nd restraining the patients just to show how you control patients,just throw them out!!!!!

Getting blood, urine, vomit, & shit on are just for starters.

Maybe they shouldn't be practicing nursing if they barely want to report the violence committed against them. It takes that one day when they may snap and who knows what pain they may inflict on others.

They Dont Report The Assaults To Employers Because The Employer Will Fire Them And This Is Endangerment.

This is Canada, here it is politically incorrect to hold people accountable for their actions.

"Extrodinary"! This reporter must be a real cupcake to be that out of touch with reality. Did he not do his homework before he started asking questions? I could go on, but I won't.

when people think they are entitled to health care.. the go in with an entitlement mentality... demanding and no respect

crazy people come in off the streets for a break. they cannot be denied.

Unacceptable.

Tired of it 😔

all walkout

This wouldn't last in America. Even if they have potentially violent patients, they would at least be put sedated.

Nah that’s silver

#nursestrong!

wow poor fuckin Rhonda almost got hurt...................now she doesnt have too work for that money.........................she can just sit on the beach and wait for it............wonderful...........

most nurses are rude is why people lash out.

A punk nurse in hospital? OMG That's so unprofessional No wonder why nurses are assaulted so much in Canada. How on earth a person with that look can be assigned as nurse.Are these people crazy?