Nurses have let it become part of their culture to accept that it is just part of the job to be physically or verbally abused. Nurses need to feel safe in their workplace and they need to have support from their administration, they need to have in place a process to report this abuse. What is workplace violence? As a fact sheet for OSHA says, “Workplace violence is violence or the threat of violence against workers. It can occur at or outside the workplace and can range from threats of abuse to physical assaults and homicide, one of the leading job related deaths.” (OSHA fact sheet, 2002, p. 1).
Sometimes other nurses start beginning to create problems between each other by saying that they are not moving fast enough or that they are lazy. I had an elderly patient at a nursing home clinical site scratch my chest because we were trying to help her change into her clothes. The patient was angry and she was trying to hit and scratch everyone in sight. We tried to talk to her calmly and diffuse her unknown anger towards us. The patient eventually calmed down but then had to be put in wrist restraints for the violent behavior.
Reports of disruptive behavior and bullying with disturbing outcomes are well documented among healthcare professionals. These reports attest that working in a chaotic environment creates an unhealthy workplace for nurses, nursing students, patients as well as the public. In this type of work environment the stress level is usually high, job satisfaction decreases, and unwelcomed clinical outcomes take place such as; increased medical errors, and decreased focus and judgment
Nurse Ratchet takes pleasure in being feared by the patients. The patients fear her wrath and punishments, as well as her humiliation tactics. The greatest example of this is Billy Bibbit who is an Acute patient in the ward that stutters and eventually commits suicide due to Nurse Ratchet’s methods of mortification. She thinks very highly of herself, one patient states, “I hope you are finally satisfied, playing with human lives- gambling with human lives- as if you thought yourself to be a god” (266). Nurse Ratchet is finally brought down from her high throne when McMurphy, the new patient, injures her vocal cores from strangling her.
Case Study Journal The case study “Sharing the Secret” is a gripping examination of adults having to hide and secretly deal with their experience with incest. Molestation is horrible but incest takes it to a whole neither level, and this case study shows the hardships and tribulations that someone has growing up after being a victim of incest. The most aggravating part of the study for me was the fact that all of these women had been pretty much brainwashed by their attacker. It relates to the subject of Public and Private Selves in our class text book. These women, after being victimized, are under an extreme amount of mental turmoil and because of their age the girls aren’t well respected by adults.
Eventually, having compassion and showing concern for others without appreciation leads to CF. The chaotic environment with high acuity patients, unrealistic patient expectations along with workplace violence are some the criteria that leads to CF (Flarity, Gentry, & Mesnikoff, 2013). Additional factors causing CF are the higher patient loads, physician-nurse relationships, administrative support, and multidisciplinary services all lead to nurses leaving the profession because they feel overworked and unappreciated. Eventually, this causes the facilities to lose out on receiving full reimbursements from Medicare because of low patient satisfaction scores (Hooper, Craig, Janvrin, Wetsel, & Reimels, 2010). Nurses
The image that the media portrays about a nurse’s education is damaging to the profession in many ways. The education in which a nurse actually has to endure is more complicated than what most would think. In Grey’s Anatomy, there are so many instances where nurses are looked down upon, one of those being one of the characters, Alex Karev, an intern who constantly disrespects nurses. In season 6, episode 23 intern Alex Karev responds to a nurse who questioned him with “I want to see you go to med school for four more years and see what you are saying then” (“Sanctuary”). Although viewers do know that Grey’s Anatomy is a fictional show, there are still parts in the mind that register that physicians actually talk to nurses as Alex Karev
In fact, she does the opposite of curing them. She makes them feel shame, inferiority, reminds them of their problems, and denies the fact that they could leave the institution and go into the outside world. She does group therapy with the patients and instead of doing real therapy she lets all the patients attack each other verbally. Her “treatment methods” are far from treatment methods. Nurse Ratched makes the patients worse as time goes on.
The physical effect is related to physical injury resulting in permanent or temporary damage. Emotionally, the nurse can suffer from issues such as self-esteem and self-worth, and on a professional level, violence can prevent the nurse from feeling safe in the working environment (Whelan, 2008). This can lead to the organization effect of staff retention. Nurses that are stressed at work and worried about personal safety have the potential for loss of job satisfaction, which can result in staff turnover (Carroll,
The local social services and the English national regulator, Care Quality Commission, had received various warnings but the mistreatment continued. Even a senior nurse who worked within the hospital reported his concerns to management and also to CQC, but his complaint wasn’t taken up upon. The footage had shown staff repeatedly assaulting and harshly restraining patients under chairs, staff also gave patients cold punishment showers. They had even left one patient outside in near zero temperatures and had also poured mouthwash into another patient’s eyes. They had pulled patients’ hair and forced medication into their mouths.