Hospital nurses tend to rush toward people in pain and distress with their guards down. Increasingly, they say, they are ending up in need of medical care themselves.
Attacks against nurses and health care workers are considered a serious, worsening problem. A dramatic example happened recently at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, where a patient allegedly tried to rape a nurse earlier this month.
According to police, the patient, who was attached to an IV pole, motioned for a nurse to come to his room. He began choking her and then tried to pull off her clothing and sexually assault her, police said. It took multiple staffers to subdue him, with some suffering minor injuries.
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That followed a situation at Penn State Hershey in January in which a patient who was hospitalized while facing serious criminal charges assaulted a nurse in a supply room, putting a razor against her neck. That nurse and another who came to help sustained cuts trying to get the razor away from the man, who then then grabbed a scalpel and held it against the second nurse's throat. A security guard also was cut.
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