Attacks on ER Nurses on the Rise
Bill A3103A landed on New York Governor David Paterson’s desk last week, and with his signature nurses in the state would see harsher penalties for the violent patients who attack them.
“The emergency room is a high-risk area to be assaulted,” says Debra Bibartolo, a member of New York State Emergency Nurses Association Government Affair Committee and AOL Health’s nursing specialist. “Nurses get hit. It’s reality.”
This is typical of how we Americans do everything backwards. The New York bill is one of many throughout the country that would make an attack on a nurse a felony charge instead of a misdemeanor, due to an upswing in the number of ER nurses being assaulted.
You don’t change laws to make attacking nurses a higher penalty. Instead we need to look at why they are getting attacked more. Aside from the mentally unstable, could it be that people are fed up with the system and frustrated? The high cost, the bad attitudes of the staff, the treating people like sub-humans, treating them like numbers.
Solve the problem, don’t pass another idiot law.
Last Updated on November 12th, 2011
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