Another person in a pickup truck ran over and destroyed signs put up around the clinic’s tent.Ībout three in 10 nurses who took part in a survey this month by an umbrella organization of nurses’ unions across the US reported an increase in violence where they work, stemming from factors including staff shortages and more visitor restrictions. Over Labor Day weekend in Colorado, a passerby threw an unidentified liquid at a nurse working at a mobile vaccine clinic in suburban Denver. “Our healthcare workers are almost feeling like Vietnam veterans, scared to go into the community after a shift,” Bobbitt said. Others have been the subject of hurtful rumors spread by people angry about the pandemic. In Idaho, nurses said they were scared to go to the grocery store unless they have changed out of their scrubs so they aren’t accosted by residents enraged by conspiracy theories about the vaccine.ĭoctors and nurses at a Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, hospital have been accused of killing patients by grieving family members who don’t believe Covid-19 is real, said hospital spokesperson Caiti Bobbitt. Some hospitals have limited the number of public entrances. Lynne Yaggy, who became a nurse in 1991 and is now chief nursing officer and vice-president of clinical services at the Branson hospital, said: “There has always been violence against healthcare workers, but what I have seen is an escalation of that in intensity and in the number of incidents.” Indeed, across the US – as America’s hospitals and clinics have strained under the impact of Covid-19 – there have been reports of staff facing increased threats and violence, making an already difficult and dangerous job even more so. The hospital is buying the buttons with a $132,000 grant from a local charity, the Skaggs Foundation, because of increasing concerns about violence against its staff, a problem that predates the Covid-19 pandemic but appears to have since worsened at hospitals around the country.
Now hospital administrators plan to provide more than 300 panic buttons to healthcare staff over the next two months, which Paul thinks could help avoid such potentially dangerous situations. While the staff was able to restrain the patient, had the ICU been noisier, as is common, that might not have been the case, Paul said. With four or five people, they were able to sedate the patient, who was severely ill and unaware of his actions. Fortunately, a nurse in an adjacent room heard Paul, rushed over and called for additional help.
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