Nurse Hits Back: Adrianne on the Nursing News with Q the Nurse
A federal agency has found that a Portland hospital failed to protect patients from physical abuse on two occasions...
Adrianne had the pleasure of being invited back to Q the Nurse’s channel, this time for Nursing News. In this excerpt, they talk about two hospital staff who physically retaliate against two different patients who assaulted them.
Check out this 15-minute clip where Adrianne and Q talk this out. They dive deeper into the known details of each situation and their views on nurses who hit back. There’s more to this discussion than lies upon the surface.
Let’s continue this conversation in the comments. What do you think about this news story? Do we know enough to make judgments? Is there ever a circumstance where it’s ok for a healthcare professional to strike a patient? How do we as nurses handle these circumstances and how to we prepare ourselves for the challenges of aggressive patients?
