New Jersey hospital workers have experienced a 15% increase in violence at their workplace over the last two years, as short staffing has generated frustrated and angry patients who lash out at nurses and their colleagues.
New Jersey hospital workers have experienced a 15% increase in violence at their workplace — mostly physical and verbal attacks — over the last two years, as short staffing has generated frustrated and angry patients who lash out at nurses and their colleagues., up from 8,691 in 2019, according to a survey published last week by the New Jersey Hospital Association, a trade group based in Princeton. Half the attacks in 2021 were physical, and 44% were verbal.
Debbie White, president of the Health Professionals & Allied Employees, a labor union with about 14,000 members in New Jersey, said the existence of a 2008 state law,, shows that attacks on health-care workers are not new. “If we had employers looking at these regs and really delving into them and trying to set up programs that had teeth in each of our hospitals we would have a different story,” White said. Her union on June 9One of the factors hospitals were supposed to consider as part of their violence prevention plans was staffing level. That’s key, White said. “A decrease in staffing and an uptick in violence” have gone hand-in-hand, and it didn’t start with COVID-19, she said.
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