Comment on Nurses Get Bitten, Spat on, Thrown. That’s Why We’re on Strike.

Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well I’m a 340 pound 6’6" nurse so I don’t.

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  • sdfric88@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If a patient throws out their back trying to throw you though, that just ends up being more work for you.

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  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The mighty battle nurse!

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• lath@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would think it’s usually by family members of the patients, but to be a patient in the hospital, your body is no longer obeying regular functions, so the unexpected becomes the norm.

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  • Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its usually patients, they often don’t have full capacity (either altered for organic underlying reasons, or substance use, etc…) and usually for that reason it goes unreported.

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  • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If they aren’t responsible for their actions they should be considered legally incompetent by the state and their guardian should have to pay damages.

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    • lath@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s silly. If professionals can’t subdue a person completely out of control, you can’t expect a layman to do the same.

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      • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There are a lot of legal restrictions on how the hospital is allowed respond to violent patients

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