Roughly 8 in 10 nurses reported experiencing at least one type of workplace violence in a 2023 survey done by the NC Nurses Association.

A woman is suing a hospital facility after she was attacked with a rock and knocked unconscious by a “violent” patient who had been released earlier that day, according to a complaint filed in Oregon.

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A study led by Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic found that patient violence often begins in out-of-hospital settings and continues into the ED and other inpatient units. The study, published June 18 ...

The shift in American culture towards justifying violence based on grievance, rather than condemning it, is leading to a weakening of accountability and a corrosion of individual and societal ...

Clinicians are on the front lines in caring for gunshot victims. The continuous flow of these victims to emergency departments has sparked the medical community to speak out on ways to reduce the ...

The worsening violence in health care settings is presenting providers with a vexing dilemma: How to maintain safety and security for staff and patients without creating unwelcoming, closed ...

San Diego internist David B. Bittleman, MD, was finishing an appointment with a patient when the man's caregiver slipped Bittleman a note as the patient walked out of the room. "Call me tomorrow," the ...

The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is warning hospitals that they must protect their employees and patients from violence that is increasingly ...

Michele Whaylen, a physicians assistant in the University of Iowa emergency room, poses for a portrait Friday, June 30 at her home in Iowa City. Violence against health care workers has seen a sharp ...

DENVER — Seven years ago, Erica Green learned through a Facebook post that her brother had been shot. She rushed to check on him at a hospital run by Denver Health, the city's safety-net system, but ...