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Healthcare Worker Shootings: Where is OSHA’s Workplace Violence Standard?
Workplace violence continues to kill and injure this country's caregivers while the latest round of healthcare worker homicides has renewed calls for action to be taken to protect healthcare workers. Two healthcare workers were shot and killed at Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Dallas Texas on Saturday. The shooter, who was shot and wounded, was out on parole for aggravated robbery. One of the nurses was 45-year-old Jacqueline Pokuaa. The other has not been identified. And on Saturday, June Onkundi, a nurse practitioner at the Freedom House Recovery Center clinic in Durham was fatally stabbed Tuesday by a patient at the clinic. Freedom House Recovery Center is a licensed outpatient facility under the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Health Service Regulation A former employee at Methodist revealed that "there have been security concerns at the hospital for years, including not enough restrictions, and not enough oversight. 'Like, we've said this. We've said this is going to happen. We always said it was going to happen.' Since the shooting, Methodist has not held a press conference or even answered FOX 4's specific questions about security protocols, even though its own police force is leading the investigation. "It feels very shady, it feels like there's some sort of covering up of something that's going on," she said. More upsetting is that, according to FOX4 News, although many active Methodist healthcare workers have reached out to the station with security concerns. "The thing is, none will interview for fear of losing their jobs." "The thing is, none will interview for fear of losing their jobs." These homicides come less than a year after Illinois Department of Family and Child Services social worker Deirdre Silas was brutally stabbed to death while conducting a welfare check on children living in a private home. A hospital worker was killed in June after he was kicked by a woman in June and last July, a nurse and paramedic were stabbed at Missouri hospital. Meanwhile, an OSHA standard to protect healthcare and social service workers from workplace violence languishes. Read more of this post (veja abaixo) An Epidemic of Workplace Violence InjuriesWhen healthcare and social service workers are killed on the job, there are big headlines, at least for a few days. But homicides are just the tip of the workplace violence iceberg. Injuries caused by workplace assaults are at epidemic levels, but rarely receive any attention by the media. Homicides are just the tip of the workplace violence iceberg. Injuries caused by workplace assaults are at epidemic levels, but rarely receive any attention by the media. A 2020 report from the House Committee on Education and labor noted that healthcare workers suffer high injury rates from workplace violence. In 2019, hospital workers were nearly five times as likely to suffer a serious workplace violence injury than all other workers, while workers in psychiatric hospitals are at 34 times greater risk of workplace violence injuries compared with all other workers. BLS reports 20,870 health and social service workers had injuries so severe they lost workdays from injuries due to workplace violence in 2019, amounting to 70 percent of all workplace violence injuries across all industries. The total number of the most severe workplace violence injuries in the health care and social service industry, which are those requiring days away from Public employees, many of whom are not covered by OSHA, are at even higher risk. In 2017, state government health care and social service workers were almost 9 times more likely to be injured by an assault than private sector health care workers. Each year, nearly 7 percent of psychiatric aides employed in state and local government mental health facilities experienced violence-related injuries causing them to lose time from work. State psychiatric aides suffered an extraordinarily high rate of assault-related injuries in 2019—1,460.1 per 10,000 workers. State mental health and substance abuse social workers averaged 155 per 10,000 workers over the past five years; psychiatric technicians are at 429.6 per 10,000 workers; nursing, psychiatric and home health aides at 412.8 per 10,000 workers; health care support occupations at 506.6 per 10,000 workers; and nursing assistants at 132.1 per 10,000 workers. Workplace violence against this nation’s caregivers not only causes serious physical injuries and sometimes death, but it can also lead to mental health problems and post-traumatic stress disorder — conditions that often keep healthcare workers from ever returning to the job, even after their physical injuries have mended. |
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